Robots in Clutter: Learning to Understand Environmental Changes
Date and Time
Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location
Computer Science Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Type
CS Department Colloquium Series
Speaker
Host
Prof. Thomas Funkhouser
David Held is a post-doctoral researcher at U.C. Berkeley working with Pieter Abbeel on deep reinforcement learning for robotics. He recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University with Sebastian Thrun and Silvio Savarese, where he developed methods for perception for autonomous vehicles. David has also worked as an intern on Google’s self-driving car team. Before Stanford, David was a researcher at the Weizmann Institute, where he worked on building a robotic octopus. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at MIT and an M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford, for which he was awarded the Best Master's Thesis Award from the Computer Science Department.