Event Program

Date & Location Info

The workshop will take place on Friday, November 22, 2024 from 8:30AM to 6:00PM.
The talks and panel session will be on the 17th Floor of the Center for Computing & Data Sciences (CDS), Room 1750. The F1Tenth Race Competition and poster session will be on the 9th floor of the Photonics Building (PHO), in Room 906 and the Atrium, respectively. Please see Directions for further details

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  • 8:30AM – 8:45AM
    CDS 1750

    Breakfast and Registration

    A good start of the day.
  • 8:45AM – 9:00AM
    CDS 1750

    Introductory Remarks

    Roberto Tron, Wenchao Li, Ayse Coskun

  • 9:00AM – 9:45AM
    CDS 1750

    M. Ani Hsieh

    University of Pennsylvania
    Deputy Director, GRASP Lab
    Graduate Program Chair, ROBO
    Associate Professor, MEAM

  • 9:50AM – 10:35AM
    CDS 1750

    Mario Sznaier

    Northeastern University
    Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, ECE

  • 10:35AM – 10:45AM
    CDS 1750

    Coffee Break

    A chance to talk with the speakers and other attendants.
  • 10:45AM – 11:30AM
    CDS 1750

    John Leonard

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
    Samuel C. Collins Professor
  • 11:40AM – 12:30PM
    CDS 1750

    Moderated Industry Panel

    Bringing the real-world perspective.

    • Brendan Schulman, Vice President of Policy & Government Relations, Boston Dynamics
    • Mitchell Black, Lead Research Scientist, MIT Lincoln Lab
    • Ulrich Viereck, Senior Machine Learning Vision Engineer, Symbotic

  • 12:30PM – 1:30PM
    CDS 1750

    Lunch

    Refuel and interact with the other attendees

  • 2:00PM – 4:30PM
    PHO 9th floor

    Poster Session

    A peek to BU world-class research in robotics and autonomous systems

  • 2:00PM – 4:30PM
    PHO 906

    F1/TENTH Autonomous Vehicle Competition

    Knockout phase with head-to-head intense battles between autonomous driving algorithms

  • 4:45PM – 6:00PM
    PHO 906

    Competition Award Ceremony and Reception

    Competition winners announcement, networking