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2024.10 I presented our paper Opti-Acoustic Semantic SLAM with Unknown Objects in Underwater Environments at the IROS 2024 Workshop, Autonomous Robotic Systems in Aquaculture, and we won the Best Paper Award.
2024.07 Our paper Opti-Acoustic Semantic SLAM with Unknown Objects in Underwater Environments was accepted for publication in IROS 2024.
2024.03 We submitted a paper Opti-Acoustic Semantic SLAM with Unknown Objects in Underwater Environments. Check out our project page.
2024.02 I completed MIT Research Mentoring Certificate.
2024.01 Our paper Diver Identification Using Anthropometric Data Ratios for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration was accepted for publication in RA-L.
2023.10 I presented “Human-Robot Teaming for Complex Undersea Missions” at the IROS 2023 2nd Advanced Marine Robotics TC Workshop as an invited speaker.
2023.09 I submitted a paper Diver Identification Using Anthropometric Data Ratios for Underwater Multi-Human-Robot Collaboration.
2023.09 I submitted a paper IBURD: Image Blending for Underwater Robotic Detection.
2023.09 I am starting as a postdoctoral associate in Marine Robotics Group at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. John Leonard.
2023.07 I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
2023.05 I attended ICRA 2023 in London and presented Semantic Mapping with Confidence Scores through Metric Embeddings and Gaussian Process Classification.
2023.05 I received ICRA 2023 RAS Travel Grant.
2023.05 I successfully defended my thesis.
2023.03 I was invited to MIT and presented my research “Toward robotic autonomy in data-scarce and visually challenging environments” at the MIT CSAIL seminar.
2023.02 I attended 20th Annual Marine Robotics Workshop & Field Trials in Holetown, Barbados, where we conducted intensive underwater robot trials in Caribbean Sea for 5 days and I presented my research.
2023.02 My story as a Ph.D. student was covered by the University of Minnesota Computer Science and Engineering Deparment News CSpotlight and their Twitter.
2023.02 I submitted a paper regarding diver pose identification for human-robot collaboration.
2023.01 Self-supervised Wide Baseline Visual Servoing via 3D Equivariance manuscript has been updated.
2023.01 My work during internship at Samsung AI, Semantic Mapping with Confidence Scores through Metric Embeddings and Gaussian Process Classification was accepted for publication in ICRA 2023.
2022.09 I was inivited as a panel for “How to Thrive as a PhD Student” in the Intro to Research Course (CSCI 8001) at the University of Minnesota.
2022.09 I submitted a paper in ICRA 2023 from Samsung AI Center New York, and finished my internship (Advisor: Prof. Volkan Isler).
2022.06 Self-supervised Wide Baseline Visual Servoing via 3D Equivariance was accepted for publication in IROS 2022.
2022.02 I started my Research Internship at Samsung AI Center New York.
2022.01 Using Monocular Vision and Human Body Priors for AUVs to Autonomously Approach Divers was accepted for publication in ICRA 2022.
2022.01 ROW-SLAM: Under-Canopy Cornfield Semantic SLAM was accepted for publication in ICRA 2022.
2021.12 I passed my Ph.D. proposal exam.
2021.11 I won the 2nd place award by presenting our paper Semantically-Aware Strategies for Stereo-Visual Robotic Obstacle Avoidance at the 21st KOCSEA Technical Symposium, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
2021.11 Our TrashCAN dataset has been downloaded more than 17,000 times since its release in the last July. Check
2021.09 I submitted the paper ROW-SLAM: Under-Canopy Cornfield Semantic SLAM and preprint is available.
2021.08 Our TrashCAN dataset has been downloaded more than 16,000 times since its release in the last July. Check
2021.06 I presented our paper Semantically-Aware Strategies for Stereo-Visual Robotic Obstacle Avoidance in ICRA 2021.
2021.02 Semantically-Aware Strategies for Stereo-Visual Robotic Obstacle Avoidance was accepted for publication in ICRA 2021. Manuscript will be updated here by the end of March.
2021.01 Updated a new website!