Program Agenda

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TUESDAY, APRIL 19
10:45am - 11:00am
Welcome / Opening Remarks
Henry Kautz (Division Director, NSF/CISE/IIS)
Robert Stone (Division Director, NSF/ENG/CMMI)
Erion Plaku (NSF) 
Juan Wachs (NSF)

Moderators:
Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
11:00am - 11:45am
Short Talks Session 1
Moderator: Kostas Bekris, Rutgers University
11:45am - 12:30pm POSTER SESSION 1
12:30pm - 1:15pm
Keynote: Designing Robots for Humans
Dr. Holly Yanco (University of Massachussetts Lowell)
Moderator: Ian Abraham (Yale University)
1:15pm - 2:00pm BREAK
2:00pm - 3:30pm Long Talks Session 1
Moderator
: Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Panel Session 1 - Academia and Industry
Moderator: 
Abdeslam Boularias (Rutgers University)
Panelists: 
Michael Wolf (Amazon Robotics AI)
Jonathan Hurst (Oregon State, Agility Robotics)
Aditi Ramachandran (CTO, Van Robotics)
George Konidaris (Brown University, Realtime Robotics)
Carol Bessel (NSF/TIP/TI)
4:30pm - 5:15pm Short Talks Session 2
Moderator:
 
Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
5:15pm - 6:00pm POSTER SESSION 2
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
10:45am - 11:00am
Opening Remarks
Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director, NSF/CISE) 
Don Millard, Deputy (Acting Assistant Director, NSF/ENG)
Erion Plaku (NSF)
Juan Wachs (NSF)

Moderators
Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
11:00am - 11:45am Short Talks Session 3
Moderator: Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
11:45am - 12:30pm POSTER SESSION 3
12:30pm - 1:15pm Keynote: Lessons from the Field: Deep Learning and Machine Perception for Field Robots
Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson (Carnegie Melon University)
Moderator: Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
1:15pm - 2:00pm BREAK
2:00pm - 3:30pm Long Talks Session 2
Moderator: Jingjin (JJ) Yu (Rutgers University)
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Panel Session 2 - Federal Initiatives in Robotics
Moderator:
Marlena Fraune (New Mexico State University) 
Panelists: 
Moria Bittmann (Program Director, NIH)
Ganesh Bora (National Program Leader, USDA/NIFA)
Marc Steinberg (Program Director, Science of Autonomy, ONR)
Frank Hearl (Chief of Staff, NIOSH)
Erion Plaku (NSF)
Juan Wachs (NSF)
4:30pm - 5:15pm Short Talks Session 4
Moderator:
 
Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
5:15pm - 6:00pm POSTER SESSION 4
THURSDAY, APRIL 21
11:00am - 11:45am Short Talks Session 5
Moderator: 
Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
11:45am - 12:30pm POSTER SESSION 5
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Panel Session 3 - International Perspectives
Moderator: Aaron Dollar (Yale University)
Panelists
James Dracott (Head of AI and Robotics, UK Research and Innovation)
Kazuyoshi Shimada (Director of Washington, D.C. Office, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Gregory Scott Chirikjian (National University of Singapore)
Oliver Brock (Technische Universität Berlin)
Gal Kaminka (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Greg Dudek (McGill University, NSERC Canadian Robotics Network, Samsung Electronics)
1:30pm - 2:15pm BREAK
2:15pm - 3:45pm Long Talks Session 3
Moderator:
Tariq Iqbal (University of Virginia)
3:45pm - 4:30pm
Short Talks Session 6
Moderator: 

Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
4:30pm - 5:15pm POSTER SESSION 6
5:15pm - 5:30pm
Closing Remarks:
Marynel Vázquez (Yale University)
Kostas Bekris (Rutgers University)
Erion Plaku (NSF)
Juan Wachs (NSF)
MEETING ADJOURNED