Organizers
Dr. Farbod Farshidian is a postdoctoral research assistant at Robotic System Lab, ETH Zurich. In his research, he focuses on the motion planning and control of the mobile robots, with the aim of developing algorithms and techniques that can endow robotic platforms to operate autonomously in real-world applications. Farbod received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from K.N.Toosi University of Technology and the University of Tehran in Iran from 2005 to 2012. He got his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2017 on motion planning and control of legged systems. Since January 2018, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Robotic System Lab, ETH Zurich.
Dr. Justin Carpentier is a postdoctoral researcher at the interface between Robotics, Machine Learning and Control. His research is devoted to the embedding of Optimal Control theory inside the formalism of Machine Learning, with Humanoid Robotics as a main target application. Since September 2018, He is a postdoctoral fellow inside the Willow research group at INRIA Paris in France. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher inside the Gepetto research group at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse, France where he also got his PhD.
Dr. Patrick Wensing joined the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 2017 after completing his postdoctoral research at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ohio State University in 2014. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his dissertation work on balance control strategies for humanoid robots. His postdoctoral research with the MIT Cheetah robot has received considerable publicity worldwide, with features from TIME, WIRED, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Eiichi Yoshida received M.E and Ph.D degrees on Precision Machinery Engineering from Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 1993 and 1996 respectively. In 1996 he joined former Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, later reorganized as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. He served as Co-Director of AIST/IS-CNRS/ST2I Joint French-Japanese Robotics Laboratory (JRL) at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, from 2004 to 2008. Since 2009, he is Co-Director of CNRS-AIST JRL (Joint Robotics Laboratory), UMI3218/RL, and since 2015 he serves as Deputy-Director of Intelligent Systems Research Institute (IS-AIST), AIST, Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include robot task and motion planning, human modeling, and humanoid robots.