Ravi Pandya - Influence-Aware Safety for Human-Robot Interaction

Talking Robotics #81 Speaker Ravi Pandya Title Influence-Aware Safety for Human-Robot Interaction Speaker Bio Ravi Pandya is a PhD Candidate in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Prof. Changliu Liu and Prof. Andrea Bajcsy. His work is at the intersection of safe control, robot learning, and human modeling, focusing specifically on enabling AI and robots to understand the influence they have on people in order to stay safe while interacting with humans. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to his PhD, he was a data scientist at Ericsson working on multi-agent reinforcement learning. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2019. Speaker Links: Personal Website: https://ravipandya.com Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?... Chapters 00:00 Presenter Introduction 01:25 Presentation 34:44 Q&A 47:19 End Talking Robotics is a series of virtual seminars about Robotics and its interaction with other relevant fields, such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Design Research, Human-Robot Interaction, among others. We aim to promote reflections, dialogues, and a place to network. Organized by Silvia Tulli, Riddhiman Laha,Nitin Ragothaman, Gabriella Miles, Niveditha Kalavakonda, Yuhe Gong and Marine Chamoux Email: talkingrobotics at gmail dot com Web Page: https://talking-robotics.github.io Twitter: @talkingrobotics