Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Speaker: Dr. Michael Roberson-Johnson
Dr. Michael Roberson-Johnson, Director of CMU’s Robotics Institute and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), will discuss the origins of the Robotics Institute, the Institute’s role in recent developments in robotics, exciting challenges for the future, and societal concerns about robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Johnson-Roberson previously co-directed the University of Michigan Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV) and founded and leads the DROP (Deep Robot Optical Perception) Lab, which researches 3D reconstruction, segmentation, data mining, and visualization. He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science from CMU and his Ph.D. in robotics from the University of Sydney and has held prior postdoctoral appointments with the Centre for Autonomous Systems – CAS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2015.
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