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
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.
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.
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.