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I'm a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, under a QinetiQ North America Robotics Fellowship; I'm co-advised by J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell and Martial Hebert. My research lies somewhere in the areas of machine learning and computer vision for understanding scenes from 3-D point clouds and/or images.

During my M.S. research, I closely worked with Nicolas Vandapel and Martial on 3-D point cloud classification/segmentation for unmanned vehicles, as part of the CTA Robotics project. Much of this work was supported by a Siebel Scholarship.

Before that, I received my B.S. from Carnegie Mellon as well and studied Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science.

projects

ECCV 2010 Inference Machines for Scene Understanding
with J. A. Bagnell, M. Hebert, S. Ross, X. Xiong
Papers: ECCV 2010, CVPR 2011, ICRA 2011
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CVPR 2009 Learning High-order Random Fields for Smoothed Labeling
with J. A. Bagnell, M. Hebert, N. Vandapel
Papers: CVPR 2009, ICRA 2009, CMU Tech. Report 2010
[project page]