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Dr. George Bekey is the Gordon Marshall Professor of computer science, electrical engineering, and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, where he founded the biomedical engineering department and the Robotics Research Laboratory. He has published over 200 papers, is the editor-in-chief of the journal Autonomous Robots, and was the founding editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, George has also worked in the industry as an engineer with Beckman Instruments and TRW Systems. George received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Dr. Henrik Christensen is the Director of the Center for Autonomous Systems and a professor of computer science at Swedens Royal Institute of Technology. Henrik has published more than 120 papers in the fields of computer vision and robotics, has co-edited five books, has consulted for numerous companies on the development of real-time autonomous systems, and is an associate editor of AI Magazine as well as five international journals. Henrik is also an advisor to the European Unions Future and Emerging Technology Office and to the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education. Henrik received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Aalborg University in Denmark.
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Dr. Maja Matarić is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Southern California, where she is also the Founding Director of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems, and co-Director of the USC Robotics Research Lab. Maja is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the MIT TR 100 Innovation Award, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award, the USC School of Engineering Junior Research Award, and is featured in the movie "Me & Isaac Newton." She is an associate editor of three major journals and has published over 30 journal articles, 17 book chapters, 4 edited volumes, 90 conference papers, and 22 workshop papers, and has two books in the works with MIT Press. Her research is aimed at endowing robots with the ability to help people and involves systems ranging from individual assistants (for convalescence, training, education, companionship, etc.) to cooperative robot teams (for habitat monitoring, emergency response, etc.) and problems of intelligent control and learning in complex systems that integrate perception, representation, and interaction with people. Maja received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Pietro Perona is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the director of the Caltech Vision Group and the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. His research focuses on computational aspects of vision, including early vision, autonomous navigation, shape reconstruction, and visual pattern recognition. He is also a co-founder of Digital Persona, a leading manufacturer of consumer biometric devices and services. Pietro received a D.Eng. from the University of Padova in Italy and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Dr. Joel Burdick is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and is also the Deputy Director of the Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering. He is the director of the Robotics Group, where his research interests lie in the areas of kinematics and mechanical systems. His current research initiatives include robotic locomotion, sensor-based robot motion planning, multi-fingered robotic hand manipulation, medical applications of robotics, applied nonlinear control theory, and neural prosthetics. He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award, and a Feynman Fellowship. Joel received an undergraduate degree from Duke University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Dr. Don Norman is the cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services, where he specializes in consumer products. In this role, he serves as advisor and board member to numerous companies. Newsweek has called him the guru of workable technology. Don is Professor Emeritus of both Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, he was Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett-Packard.
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Dr. David Lowe is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His research has developed new approaches to visual object recognition, invariant image features, pose determination, visual indexing, and robot localization. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1984. From 1984 to 1987 he was an assistant professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He was a Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1987 to 1995. He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision.
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