Personal Robotics

Siddhartha Srinivasa is a co-PI of the Personal Robotics project. He is a Senior Research Scientist with Intel Research Pittsburgh. He also holds an Adjunct Faculty position at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on enabling robots to interact faster, better, and smoother with the real world. He received his PhD from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University where he developed robust controllers for robotic manipulation. He also has a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Joshua Smith is an Intel Principal Engineer. His research focus in Personal Robotics is on electric field sensing for robotic grasping. As a doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joshua invented an electric-field-based passenger airbag suppression system that is now standard equipment in all Honda cars. Since joining Intel, he has also led the development of WISP, a wirelessly powered platform for sensing and computing. Josh is an affiliate faculty member in both the department of Electrical Engineering and the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.

Dmitry Berenson is currently a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University working on the Intel Personal Robotics project sponsored by the Quality of Life Technology Institute. He graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His interests include manipulation, planning algorithms, grasping, mobile manipulation, and humanoid robotics.

Alvaro Collet is a M.Sc. student in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the primary computer vision researcher on the Personal Robotics project at Intel Research Pittsburgh. His interests include vision for manipulation, active sensing, object recognition, and sensor fusion. Alvaro graduated from Universitat Ramon Llull in 2005 with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Mehmet Dogar is a PhD student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests include manipulation, grasping, and humanoid robotics. Mehmet received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in Computer Engineering.

Rosen Diankov graduated from University of California Berkeley in 2006 with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Applied Math degrees. He is currently a PhD graduate student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Melon University. Rosen's main research focus is to solve the robotics problem: perception, planning, visualization, and control into one coherent framework. He has worked on several vision and planning systems involving autonomous robots in everyday scenarios. One of his contributions to the robotics field is an open-source planning framework called OpenRAVE, which serves as a repository for planning algorithms.

Garratt is a M.S. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His focus is on perception and mapping for mobile robotics. Garratt is in charge of the navigation, localization, and perception involved in HERB's Segway base. He is currently developing GATMO, an open source package that performs dynamic object tracking, as well as provides a visual interface for displaying robot information. Garratt graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2007 with B.S. degrees in both Physics and Electrical Engineering.

As a software engineer for Intel Research, Louis LeGrand was responsible for creating the inference software for Intel's Mobile Sensing Platform. He came to Intel Research from engineering roles with Pixelworks and Boeing. Loius holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from Iowa State University and another in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.

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Mike Vande Weghe has worked for the past ten years in mechanical, electrical, and software development at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is presently a Senior Research Engineer at the Robotics Institute. Mike is responsible for hardware development and robot control on the Intel Research Personal Robotics project. Before coming to CMU, Mike worked for Parlance Corporation and BBN on realtime computer speech recognition, and for Lutron Electronics on high-frequency switching power systems. Mike has an SB in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a MS in Robotics from CMU.