ACL alum Chris Shannon (S.M. 2016) graduated pilot training and is off to learn to fly the F-35!

ACL members (Nikita Jaipuria and Shayegan Omidshafiei) presented 2 papers at NIPS 2017 workshops. The follow-up paper by Shayegan Omidshafiei on reinforcement learning was accepted to AAMAS 2018 as a full talk.

Papers

• CASNSC: A context-based approach for accurate pedestrian motion prediction at intersections (NIPS)
• Crossmodal Attentive Skill Learner (NIPS)

Kris, Brett, Nghia, and Kasra got their papers accepted! Good work!

Papers

• Talk Resource-Efficiently to Me (Kasra)
• Complexity Analysis and Efficient Measurement Selection Primitives for High-Rate Graph SLAM (Kris)

See recent interviews of PhD student Michael Everett on his socially-aware robot that can navigate through pedestrian crowds.

Links

Reuters, Discovery Channel, Paper