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Simulation: What Made us Intelligent Will Make our Robots Intelligent
Antonio Loquercio, University of Pennsylvania, United States
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Foteini Liwicki, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
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Massimo Tistarelli, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy
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Guoying Zhao, University of Oulu, Finland
Simulation: What Made us Intelligent Will Make our Robots Intelligent
Antonio Loquercio
University of Pennsylvania
United States
Brief Bio
Antonio Loquercio (https://antonilo.github.io/) is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD and M.Sc. from UZH and ETH Zurich in 2021 and 2017. His research interests include learning-based robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. His work includes seminal results on vision-based agile flight via learning sensorimotor policies and continual learning in legged locomotion. He is the recipient of the 2017 ETH Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis, the Best System Paper Award at the Conference on Robot Learning (CORL) 2018, the RSS’20 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, and the T-RO’20 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention. His article on superhuman drone racing was featured on Nature’s cover. He received the Georges Giralt PhD Award, the most prestigious award for PhD dissertations in robotics in Europe.
Abstract
Antonio Loquercio (https://antonilo.github.io/) is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD and M.Sc. from UZH and ETH Zurich in 2021 and 2017. His research interests include learning-based robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. His work includes seminal results on vision-based agile flight via learning sensorimotor policies and continual learning in legged locomotion. He is the recipient of the 2017 ETH Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis, the Best System Paper Award at the Conference on Robot Learning (CORL) 2018, the RSS’20 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, and the T-RO’20 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention. His article on superhuman drone racing was featured on Nature’s cover. He received the Georges Giralt PhD Award, the most prestigious award for PhD dissertations in robotics in Europe.
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Foteini Liwicki
Lulea University of Technology
Sweden
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Brief Bio
Foteini Simistira Liwicki received her Ph.D. diploma from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece, in the field of Pattern Recognition in 2015 with the title “Recognition of online handwritten mathematical expressions”.
From 1997 till 2015, she worked as Research Associate in the Institute of Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA R.C., where she was mainly responsible for research programs in the field of Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She was also highly involved in the design and development of innovative educational platforms (targeting mainly high school education in Greece but also in other European countries). From 2015 till June 2019 she worked as a PostDoc fellow in the University of Fribourg, in the field of Document Image Analysis and Database generation. From June 2018 till June 2019 she worked as a PostDoc fellow with the Machine Learning group at the Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.
From May 2022, she is working as Associate Professor at the Luleå University, in the area of Machine Learning with focus on combining Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.
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Massimo Tistarelli
Università degli Studi di Sassari
Italy
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Guoying Zhao
University of Oulu
Finland
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