Aviral Agrawal is a M.S. in Computer Vision student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in the Robotics Institute advised by Jeffrey Ichnowski. His research interests lie in 3D representation based robotic manipulation of challenging objects, specifically transparent objects. Prior to joining CMU, Aviral worked in industry research roles and has contributed to companies such as Nvidia, Samsung Research, Amazon machine learning, Oracle.
Bardienus Pieter Duisterhof is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in the Robotics Institute advised by Jeffrey Ichnowski. His interests lie at the intersection of perception and robot manipulation of challenging objects, such as (transparent) deformables. He is also a recipient of the 2023 CMLH Fellowship in Digital Health Innovation.
Jeffrey Ichnowski is an assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. Prior to that he was a post-doctoral researcher in the RISE lab and Prof. Ken Goldberg’s AUTOLAB at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was advised by Prof. Ron Alterovitz and Prof. Jan Prins; and he holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Asian Studies with Honors from University of California at Berkeley. Between his B.A. and Ph.D., he founded numerous startups and was the principal architect at SuccessFactors, Inc., one of the world’s leading cloud-based software-as-a-service companies. His research interests are in robot grasp and motion planning in dynamic environments using cloud-based high-performance computing, optimization, and deep learning.