Georgia Tech and Google have made tremendous strides in robotics and machine intelligence research over the past few years. We are planning to organize a 1-day workshop between two groups to share research progress, exchange ideas, and spark future collaboration. The main agenda includes nine 20-minute research talks, 4 from Googlers and 5 from Georgia Tech professors, followed by a discussion on collaboration opportunities.

Date, Time, and Location

Date: Friday, May 7, 2021

Time: 8 AM PT (11 AM ET) to 2 PM PT (5 PM ET)

Location: Internal only: please find an internal mailing list or contact the organizer (sehoonha@gatech.edu)

Invited Speakers

• Alexander Toshev, Google
• Frank Hammond, Georgia Tech
• Karol Hausman, Google
• Judy Hoffman, Georgia Tech
• Matthew Gombolay, Georgia Tech
• Pannag Sanketti, Google
• Tingnan Zhang, Google
• Ye Zhao, Georgia Tech
• Zsolt Kira, Georgia Tech

Organized by: Jie Tan (Google), Sehoon Ha (Georgia Tech), Carolina Parada (Google), Irfan Essa (Georgia Tech), and Negar Saei (Google)

Schedule

Session: Introduction

(PT) 8:00 – 8:30 am / (ET) 11:00 – 11:30 am  

• Welcome & Introduction by Carolina Parada (Google) and Irfan Essa (Georgia Tech)

Session 1 (75 mins)

(PT) 8:30 – 9:45 am / (ET) 11:30 am – 12:45 pm

• Robust Planning and Decision-making for Safe Legged Locomotion by Ye Zhao @ Georgia Tech 
• Learning & Locomotion: From Sim to Real by Tingnan Zhang @ Google 
• Human-Guided Machine Learning of Control Strategies for Soft Robotic Manipulators by Frank Hammond @ Georgia Tech

10 minutes break

Session 2 (75 mins)

(PT) 9:55 – 11:10 am / (ET) 12:55 – 14:10 pm 

• Teaching robots to play table tennis: challenges and opportunities by Pannag Sanketi @ Google
• The Human in Human-Robot Interaction by Matthew Gombolay @ Georgia Tech
• Multi-task robotic reinforcement learning at scale by Karol Hausman @Google

10 minutes break

Session 3 (75 mins)

(PT) 11:20 am– 12:35 pm / (ET) 14:20 – 15:35 pm 

• Robust Vision for Reliable Visual Navigation by Judy Hoffman @ Georgia Tech
• Visual Semantic Navigation by Alex Toshev @ Google
• Leveraging the Low-Labeled Revolution for Real-World Robotics by Zsolt Kira @ Georgia Tech

10 minutes break

Session: Panel Discussion & Wrap up 

(PT) 12:45 – 13:30 pm / (ET) 15:45 – 16:30 pm 

• University Relations at Google by Negar Saei @ Google