July 10, 2023

UW + Amazon Science Hub Robotics Roundtable and Research Showcase

UW + Amazon Science Hub invites PIs, fellows, and Amazon scientists to participate in a showcase and roundtable of the work accomplished and planned for the Science Hub.

The event will be held in-person at the Burke Museum on Friday, September 22 with registration beginning at 8:30am (welcome remarks begin at 9:00am).

Event Program

8:30AM	Breakfast and Registration
9:00AM	Welcome Remarks
	Magda Balazinska, Director, Professor, and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
	Shoba Subramanian, Principal Program Manager, University Partnerships, Amazon Robotics
	Joshua Smith, Director, UW + Amazon Hub; Milton and Delia Zeutschel Professor in Entrepreneurial Excellence, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UW College of Engineering
9:30AM	Amazon Inspiration Talk
	Mike Wolf, Principal Applied Scientist, Robotics AI
10:00AM	2022 Gift Research Lightning Talks
	Design-Aware 3D Scene Interpretation Adriana Schulz
	Shifting from Reactive to Proactive Safety Karen Leung
	Fleet Planning of Autonomous Cart Systems Chiwei Yan
10:45AM	Break
11:00AM	2022 Gift Research Lightning Talks
	Dynamic Stiffness for Rapid Gripping Jeffrey Lipton
	Adaptive Grasping and Object Manipulation Xu Chen
	Self-Supervised Learning of Part-Whole Hierarchies Rajesh Rao
11:45AM	Lunch
12:30PM	Amazon Fellows Lightning Talks
1:00PM	Panel Discussion: Amazon Robotics Science Challenges Moderated by Shoba Subramanian
1:45PM	Break
2:00PM	Sponsored Research Lightning Talks
	3D Object Detection Linda Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna
	Robotic Manipulation in Densely Packed Containers Maya Cakmak, Josh Smith, Mike Wolf
3:00PM	Wrap Up
3:15PM	Social

FAQs

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Registration for in-person attendance is now closed for this event. If invited separately, please register per instructions shared with you. Please contact Sharay (sharayr@uw.edu) if you have any questions.

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