<div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This seminar is happening soon. Please join us.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Tina<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Tina (Xintian) Wang<br>Events & External Relations Manager<br>Department of Electrical Engineering<br>857-218-0454 (Mudd 1310) <br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.linkedin.com_in_xintian-2Dwang1&d=DwMFaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=SD-9ztpHDQVkXLFc0zdc9RZWqGhdQ2vAJZ0O73eMlt0&m=uQ_URBEWlzQXriKqcQjzejJWWRIkU8r9_InglsQn-9NN4_HVgkuf8P7dlJozeo9I&s=l2YP5KSgMTHi3GlVqIq_4L5deCC85_92OaRNqrDRRTk&e=">www.linkedin.com/in/xintian-wang1</a><br>———<br>This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 16:28 Columbia EE Events <<a href="mailto:ee-events@ee.columbia.edu">ee-events@ee.columbia.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div><img src="cid:ii_m73qp5hx1" alt="Left-aligned blue cuee logo.png" style="width:844px;max-width:100%"><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="text-align:start"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#0b5394" size="4"><b></b></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#0b5394" size="4"><b>Please join us for EE faculty candidate lecture on 3/25!</b></font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><font color="#0b5394"><div><b>When: </b>3/25, Tuesday, 11:40am - 12:40pm</div><div><b>Where: </b>CEPSR 750, also via <a href="https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/j/4419920270#success" target="_blank">zoom</a>. </div><div><b>Who:</b> Dr. Haoshu Fang</div><div><b>Title: </b><a href="https://www.ee.columbia.edu/events/ee-seminar-data-science-human-level-robotic-manipulation" target="_blank">Data Science for Human-level Robotic Manipulation</a></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><b>Abstract:</b> Machine learning has revolutionized many subfields of robotics, from visual perception to task planning. However, the fundamental challenge of low-level motor control for object manipulation with raw sensory observations remains unresolved, primarily due to the lack of robot state and action data during manipulation. This issue is particularly pronounced in tasks requiring multi-finger coordination and fine tactile sensing. Addressing the data problem is essential, as many modalities of robotic data, such as tactile and proprioceptive information, are not readily available online. The key scientific questions in this domain are: (i) how to collect data, (ii) what data to collect, and (iii) how to learn effectively from such data. In this talk, I will (i) introduce a novel paradigm for data collection through the design of innovative interaction interfaces, (ii) demonstrate how identifying key dimensions for scaling data can enable human-level robotic grasping, and (iii) present methods and insights on efficiently learning from heterogeneous robotic data.<br><br><b>Bio: </b>Haoshu Fang is a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT CSAIL, working with Pulkit Agrawal and Edward Adelson. He earned his PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Haoshu's research focuses on general robotic manipulation, addressing the data challenge by designing data-centric hardware, leveraging data scaling laws, and developing data-efficient learning methods. His work has been recognized with three best paper or nomination awards at top robotics conferences and prestigious fellowships from Microsoft, Baidu, and ByteDance.<br><br><b>Faculty Host: </b>James Anderson<div><br></div></font></div>
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