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Seminars Announcements
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
23 November 2009 (Monday) 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm Chee-Wooi Ten, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA		 E1-06-08, Engineering block E1, NUS Roadmap to Secure Power Control Systems against Cyber-Intrusions

Past Seminars

Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
12 October 2009, Monday 10.30 am to 11.30 am Professor Keum-Shik Hong, Ph.D., Pusan National University, Korea E1-06-08, Engineering block E1, NUS Port Automation from the Perspective of Container Crane Control
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
9 September 2009 (Wednesday) 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm Professor Huosheng Hu
University of Essex, United Kingdom		 E5-03-19, Engineering block E5, NUS From Biological Systems to Intelligent Robots
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
24 August 2009 (Monday) 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm  Martin Saerbeck,
Philips Research, The Netherlands		 Level 1 Seminar Room, I2R Building,
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, NUS		 Creating and Maintaining Social Interaction Over Time
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
 30 July 2009 (Thursday) 11.00 am to 12.30 pm  Professor Takeo Kanade,
Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 		Level 1 Seminar Room, I2R Building,
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, NUS		 Visual Processing and Understanding of Human Faces
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
Monday, July 16, 2009 2.15 pm to 3.15 pm  Professor Dong-Soo Kwon,
KAIST Department of Mechanical Engineering, Republic of Korea		 Social Robotics Lab, i2R, Level 2 (tentative) Emotional Human-Robot Interaction
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
Monday, July 16, 2009  3.40 pm to 4.40 pm  Professor T.J. Tarn,
Washington University in St. Louis, USA		 Social Robotics Lab, i2R, Level 2 (tentative) Control Issues in Robotics and Automation
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
Monday, July 16, 2009 4.40 pm to 5.40 pm  Professor Toshio Fukuda,
Dept. of Micro-Nano Systems Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan		 Social Robotics Lab, i2R, Level 2 (tentative) Cellular Systems Approach in Robotics and Automation
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
Monday, July 13, 2009 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm  Professor Qiang Ling
University of Science and Technology of China		 E4A-04-03, ACT Lab
Engineering block E4A, NUS		 Stabilize a networked n-dimensional nonlinear feedforward system with 1 bit
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
Monday, June 8, 2009 11.00 am to 12.00 noon  Matthias Scheutz,
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Informatics Director of the Human Robot Interaction Laboratory Indiana University Bloomington		 E3-06-03 (Engineering Block 3), NUS Natural Human Robot-Interactions: The Challenge of Natural Language
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
16 April 2009 (Thursday)  11.00 am to 12.00 noon  Departments of EECS and Radio/Television/Film Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA   EA-06-05, Engineering block EA, NUS Modeling Mammalian Neuropsychology for Interactive Virtual Characters 
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
11 February 2009 (Wednesday)  2.30 pm to 3.30 pm  Professor Marios Polycarpou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus   E1A-3-13, Engineering block E1A, NUS  Nonlinear Fault Diagnosis of Dynamical Systems: An Adaptive Approximation Approach 
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
10 February 2009 (Tuesday)  3.30 pm to 5.00 pm  Professor Oussama Khatib, School of Computer Science Stanford University, USA  E1-06-05, Engineering block E1, NUS  Interactive Human-Friendly Robotics 
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
9 February 2009 (Monday)  10.00 am to 11.00 am  Dr Fuchun Sun  E1-06-05, Engineering block E1, NUS  On Robot Tele-Operation Technologies 
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
3 February 2009, Tuesday  2.30 pm to 3.30 pm  Dr Fuchun Sun  Engineering Block 4, E4-04-03  Dynamics, Planning and Control for Space Robots 
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20 January 2009, Tuesday  2.30 pm to 3.30 pm  Dr Fuchun Sun  E1-06-04, Engineering Block E1, NUS  Introduction to Research Conducted in Information School of Tsinghua University 
Date Scheduled Time Speaker Venue Seminar Title
10 December 2008, Wednesday  11.00 am to 12.00 noon  Professor Jayadeva  Seminar room EA-06-05, Engineering Block EA, NUS  Look before you leap: Learning how to Optimize by using Machine Learning