Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
'Smart hug' tech aims to improve health and well-being
Prototype system uses voice-based conversation and physiological data to monitor the stress level of a user, and if needed, offers a calming hug.
Researchers use 3D motion capture to study Minnesota Zoo monkeys
The study, on which CS&E assistant professor Hyun Soo Park is a collaborator, holds new insights for neuroscience and behavioral science.
CS&E wins best paper honorable mention at CVPR 2021
The work by Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian and assistant professor Hyun Soo Park used TikTok dance videos to learn high fidelity depths of dressed humans.
UMN robotics research showcased at ICRA 2021
Four papers from C&SE faculty and students will be shared during the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
COVID-19 can't stop the Cowbot autonomous mower!
The project is a collaboration between the West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC), The Toro Company, and CS&E's Robotic Sensor Networks Lab.
Professor Isler featured in UMN Plant Breeding Seminar series
In the talk, he discusses how plant breeding and agriculture is an interesting research domain for robotics, and shares examples of relevant work from his lab.
Building a brighter future with robotics
From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, CS&E faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.
AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
CS&E associate professor Paul Schrater is part of the team who, for the first time, developed a method to measure thoughts.
CSE team receives $1.2 million NSF grant to develop smart e-scooters
CS&E assistant professor Ju Sun is part of the team aiming to add tracking systems on electric scooters to improve safety of riders on the road.
Researchers develop AI algorithm to analyze chest X-rays for COVID-19
Ju Sun is on a team that developed and validated an artificial intelligence algorithm that can evaluate chest X-rays to diagnose possible cases of COVID-19.
New discovery allows 3D printing of sensors directly on expanding organs
A team, including CS&E's Hyun Soo Park, is developing technology that could help diagnose and monitor COVID-19 patients.
Tinkering in different buoyancies
Minnebot, the amphibious robot that ultimately could help improve our knowledge of water quality in the state—and beyond.
Faculty
Latest research projects, publications, and talks
Trust your neighbors: A comprehensive survey of neighborhood-based methods for recommender systems [preprint]
Posted September 17, 2021
Athanasios N Nikolakopoulos, Xia Ning, Christian Desrosiers, George Karypis (professor)
ROW-SLAM: Under-Canopy Cornfield Semantic SLAM [preprint]
Posted September 15, 2021
Jiacheng Yuan, Jungseok Hong (Ph.D. student), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor), Volkan Isler (professor)
Knowledge-guided Self-supervised Learning for estimating River-Basin Characteristics [preprint]
Posted September 14, 2021
Rahul Ghosh (Ph.D. student), Arvind Renganathan (Ph.D. student), Ankush Khandelwal (Ph.D. 2019), Xiaowei Jia (Ph.D. 2020), Xiang Li, John Neiber, Chris Duffy, Vipin Kumar (professor)
HeMI: Multi-view Embedding in Heterogeneous Graphs [preprint]
Posted September 14, 2021
Costas Mavromatis (Ph.D student), George Karypis (professor)
Object Shell Reconstruction: Camera-centric Object Representation for Robotic Grasping [preprint]
Posted September 14, 2021
Nikhil Chavan-Dafle, Sergiy Popovych, Shubham Agrawal, Daniel D Lee, Volkan Isler (professor)
ALWAES: an Automatic Outdoor Location-Aware Correction System for Online Delivery Platforms [journal]
Posted September 14, 2021
Dongzhe Jiang, Yi Ding (Ph.D. student), Hao Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He (adjunct professor), Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang (Ph.D. 2015)
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
A City-Wide Crowdsourcing Delivery System with Reinforcement Learning [journal]
Posted September 14, 2021
Yi Ding (Ph.D. student), Baoshen Guo, Lin Zheng, Mingming Lu, Desheng Zhang (Ph.D. 2015), Shuai Wang, Sang Hyuk Son, Tian He (adjunct professor)
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
FaiREO: User Group Fairness for Equality of Opportunity in Course Recommendation [preprint]
Posted September 13, 2021
Agoritsa Polyzou (Ph.D. 2020), Maria Kalantzi (Ph.D. student), George Karypis (professor)
Composition of Fault Forests [conference paper]
Posted September 7, 2021
Danielle Stewart (Ph.D. 2020), Michael Whalen (adjunct assistant professor), Mats Heimdahl (professor), Jing Janet Liu, Darren Cofer (adjunct assistant professor)
40th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SafeComp 2021)
Does BERT Learn as Humans Perceive? Understanding Linguistic Styles through Lexica [preprint]
Posted September 6, 2021
Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Dongyeop Kang (assistant professor), Lyle Ungar