Ashutosh Saxena --- Microsoft Faculty Fellow and Sloan Fellow, Computer Science, Cornell/Stanford University

2014
- The Robo Brain project received significant popular press, including at Wired.
- Saxena won the RSS'14 Early Career Spotlight Award.
- Saxena's group has moved to Stanford University for the Robo Brain project.
- Gemici's paper on learning unsupervised haptic representation won the the best Cognitive Robotics paper award at IROS'14.
- Misra's Tell Me Dave is learning from users playing online video game.
- 3/3 papers accepted in RSS. Congrats Wu, Lenz, Misra, Sung, and Jiang.
- Hema Koppula won Google PhD Fellowship for her learning algorithm for anticipation in videos.
- Saxena is now an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
- PlanIt released: teach robots by rating online.
- See our workshop at RSS'14: Planning for Robots: Learning vs Humans.
- Our 5th RGB-D workshop at RSS'14: Vision vs Robotics!
- Our special issue on autonomous grasping and manipulation is out!
- Saxena's Robot Learning Lab projects were featured in BBC World News.
- Daily Beast comments about Amazon's predictive delivery and Saxena's predictive robots.
- Zhaoyin Jia's paper on physics-based reasoning for RGB-D image segmentation, an oral at CVPR'13, is now conditionally accepted in IEEE TPAMI.
- Vaibhav Aggarwal was awarded ELI'14 research award for his work with Ashesh Jain.
- Ashesh Jain's NIPS'13 paper on learning preferences in trajectories was mentioned in Discovery Channel Daily Planet, Techcrunch, FOX News, NBC News and several others. (Watch the video!)
- Saxena gave invited talks at the AI-based Robotics, at the Caging for manipulation, and at the Developmental and Social Robotics workshops at IROS 2013
- Koppula's paper on anticipation won the best student paper award at the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) conference. It was also covered in NBCNews, LA Times, Wired magazine, FOX News, etc., and made fun of in the Daily Show (Comedy Central) by Lewis Black.
- Rudhir Gupta was awarded best Masters project in 2013 at Cornell for this work on RGB-D human activity detection.
- Koppula's, Jiang's and Lenz's papers accepted in RSS'13, with Koppula's paper as a full oral.
- Lenz's deep learning now helping Baxter grasp new objects.
- Yun Jiang's paper on 3D object detection using hallucinated humans presented as an oral at CVPR'13.
- Saxena received NSF Career Award for research in robotic perception.
- Hema Koppula's paper on detecting human activities from RGB-D videos accepted in IJRR, and a followup paper in ICML'13.
- Saxena named one of the seven Microsoft Faculty Fellows for 2012.
- Congcong Li passed her PhD defense for her work on Feedback enabled learning models and its applications.
- Marcus Lim was awarded academic excellence award for almost perfect A+ GPA and for his work on arranging objects.
- CUAir, an undergraduate team I advised, won second place at the AUVSI competition among 35 teams. They were placed first in the mission (flight) performance category.
- Prof. Saxena won Google faculty research award, IARPA Finder, and others.
- Prof. Saxena is named a co-chair of the IEEE Technical committee on robot learning.
- Prof. Saxena is serving as Area Chair at AAAI 2012, NIPS 2012, ICML 2013+14 and RSS 2013+14.
- See cool Robot projects and the videos from CS4758!. Described in Cornell Chronicle article. (See video. see photos)
- Ashutosh Saxena is a Sloan Research Fellow. (New York Times.)
2013
- Yun Jiang's paper on discovering different types of factors in data accepted in IJCAI'13.
- Koppula's video on reactive robotic response was the finalist for best video award at IROS 2013.
2012
- Yun Jiang's work on picking up and arranging objects (published in IJRR'12) was featured in several news articles, including MSNBC and ACM Technews.
- Hema Koppula's project on scene understanding published in IJRR'12. With code and data.
- Jiang/Lim's works on hallucinating humans for learning arrangement of objects in 3D scene were accepted to ICML and ISER conferences.
- Jiang/Amend's work featured in Cornell Chronicle, and others including Communications of the ACM and the Engineer UK.
- Aerial Robotics webpage is now up. Featured in Kurzweil AI, Voice of America, IEEE Spectrum Magazine,...
- Saxena gave invited talks/seminar talks at Georgia Tec, UIUC, Umich Ann Arbor, UC Berkeley, MIT and CMU.
- Dhruv Batra's work on learning Laplacian CRFs was accepted in CVPR'12.
- Prof. Saxena is co-organizing manipulation workshop at IROS 2012.
- Cornell's Personal Robotics group in the Communications of the ACM and others.
- Daniel Ly's paper on fitting arbitrary kinematic skeletons to RGB-D data is accepted in GECCO'12.
2011
- Koppula released new code and Cornell RGBD dataset for indoor scene labeling.
- Anand/Koppula and Congcong Li presented their respective papers at NIPS 2011.
- Anand/Koppula's work featured in New Scientist. Jae Sung's work featured in R&D Magazine. Three papers (Sung/Ponce's on activity detection, Jiang/Amend's on grasping with deformable gripper, and Jiang/Lim/Zheng's on placing objects) and Jiang/Basu's video accepted to ICRA 2012.
- Li/Kowdle's paper on FeCCM was accepted in IEEE TPAMI.
- Jiang/Zheng/Lim, Labutov/Yosinski, Yang/Low/Cong, Ly, and Anand/Koppula to present their respective works at the RSS workshops in Los Angeles.
- Congcong Li, TP Wong and Norris Xu build a "shoe finder robot" in a day using FeCCMs, featured in ICRA 2011 videos. (More) Also mentioned in New Scientist.
- Zhaoyin Jia's paper on robotic object detection was accepted in IJCAI 2011.
- Prof. Saxena won the DARPA Synapse award with IBM.
- Yun Jiang and Moseson's paper on grasping, and Bills and Chen's paper on vision-based aerial navigation were accepted in ICRA 2011.
2010
- Congcong Li and Adarsh Kowdle's paper on Holistic Scene Understanding was published in NIPS 2010 and ECCV workshop on parts and attributes. (More)
- Nan Rong's presented her paper on MDPs with Unawareness in UAI 2010.
- IYB middle school students control robots!
2009
- Make3D and Grasping featured in Nilsson's book "The Quest for Artificial Intelligence", that promises to be a definitive history of the field.
- Work on robotic grasping featured in Discovery Science Channel on Jan 19, 2009 (10pm EST). And also on CBS WBNG-7 News.

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