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Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Associate Professor, School Of Computing
Professional Service
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
Workshop Chair.
01/2021 - 07/2021
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
Session Chair.
11/2020 - 11/2020
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
Role: Committee Member.
Awards Committee.
11/2020 - 11/2020
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Session Chair.
09/2020 - 10/2020
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
Area Chair.
07/2020 - 11/2020
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
Publication Chair.
06/2020 - 10/2020
- National Science Foundation.
Panel Reviewer.
12/2019 - 12/2019
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids).
Session Chair.
10/2019 - 10/2019
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
Program Committee Member.
07/2019 - 08/2019
- Robotics: Science and Systems.
Inclusion Chair.
01/2019 - 08/2019
- IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters (RA-L).
Associate Editor.
08/2018 - present
- Conference on Robot Learning (2018).
Area Chair.
02/2018 - 09/2018
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2018.
Area Chair.
02/01/2018 - 07/2018
- International Journal of Robotics Research.
Role: Guest Editor.
Special Issue on Robotics: Science and Systems 2017.
11/2017 - present
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2018.
Associate Editor.
09/15/2017 - 01/11/2018
- Conference on Robot Learning (2017).
Reviewer.
07/2017 - 09/2017
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Associate editor.
03/01/2017 - 08/2017
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference.
Conference presentation chair.
01/01/2017 - 07/2017
- Robotics and Automation Letters.
Reviewer.
10/02/2016 - 02/07/2017
- AAMAS Robotics Track (2017),.
Program Committee Member
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10/01/2016 - 12/09/2016
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
Associate editor.
09/15/2016 - 01/01/2017
Honors & Awards
- International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) Best Paper Award–Finalist.
10/2021
- RSS Workshop on Deformable Object Simulation in Robotics (DO-Sim) Best Paper 2021 Award.
07/2021
- RSS Workshop on Deformable Object Simulation in Robotics (DO-Sim) Best Paper 2021 Award–Honorable Mention.
07/2021
- Sloan Fellow.
Alfred P Sloan Foundation,
02/16/2021
- Conference on Robot Learning - Best Systems Paper Award.
11/2019
- ICRA Best Paper in Robot Manipulation--Finalist.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
05/24/2019
- IEEE ICRA 2017 Best Medical Robotics Paper Award.
IEEE,
06/01/2017
Internal Service
- NCWIT Learning Circles Committee.
Chair,
01/2020 - 01/2021.
Department service.
- Diversity Committee.
Chair,
08/2019 - present.
Department service.
- Graduate Visit Weekend.
Poster session organizer,
01/11/2017 - 02/24/2017.
Department service.
- Faculty Hiring Committee: Gemstone.
Member,
01/10/2017 - 06/2017.
Department service.
- School of Computing Diversity Committee.
Member,
09/26/2016 - 08/2019.
Department service.
- Graduate Bootcamp Instructor.
Instructor, organizer,
08/01/2016 - 12/10/2016.
Department service.
Outreach
- KSL.com Interviewed for: “An intro to artificial intelligence for the average human”.
01/30/2019 - 01/30/2019
- KRCL, Radioactive, Discussion Panelist: “The Changing Nature of Work, Robots and Mindfulness”.
01/07/2019 - 01/07/2019
- Outreach Lecture: “AlphaGo: In Context and In Depth”.
04/10/2018 - 04/10/2018
- Outreach Demonstration: “Robot Learning for Manipulation”
Engineering Day: University of Utah.
11/2017 - 11/2017
- Outreach Lecture: “Robotics: Computing Interacting with the World”
Red, White, and U Day: University of Utah.
04/2017 - 04/2017
- Outreach Demonstration: “How to Program a Robot”
Project Youth: University of Utah.
04/2017 - 04/2017
- Engineering Day: Robot Learning by Demonstration - Developed and led, along with 2 graduate students, an interactive lecture for teaching high school studens the basics of computer programming through teaching a Baxter robot to play a toy piano.
10/28/2016 - 11/05/2016
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