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Ian Lenz

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Advisor: Ashutosh Saxena

About

I'm a third year PhD student, working with the Personal Robotics Lab here at Cornell. Previously, I also worked with the Miniature Aerial Vehicles project.

Interests

I'm interested in machine learning, as applied to robotics. In particular, I'm interested in deep/feature learning approaches to robotic perception, control, and physical modeling of the robot's environment.

Education

Cornell University

2010-present

PhD student in Computer Science

Advised by Ashutosh Saxena

Carnegie Mellon University

2006-2010

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Minor in Robotics

Did research with with Tai-Sing Lee (CNBC fellowship) and Red Whittaker (CMU Google Lunar X-Prize Team)

Publications

Deep Learning for Detecting Robotic Grasps.
Ian Lenz, Honglak Lee, Ashutosh Saxena. In: Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2013
[PDF, more] bibtex 
@inproceedings{lenz2013_deeplearning_roboticgrasp,
  title={Deep Learning for Detecting Robotic Grasps},
  author={Ian Lenz and Honglak Lee and Ashutosh Saxena},
  year={2013},
  booktitle={RSS}
}

Low-Power Parallel Algorithms for Single Image based Obstacle Avoidance in Aerial Robots.
Ian Lenz, Mevlana Gemici, Ashutosh Saxena. In: International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2012
[PDF] bibtex 
@inproceedings{lenz_obsavoid_2012,
  title={Low-Power Parallel Algorithms for Single Image based Obstacle Avoidance in Aerial Robots},
  author={Ian Lenz and Mevlana Gemici and Ashutosh Saxena},
  booktitle={International Conference on Intelligent Robotic Systems (IROS)},
  year={2012}
}