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Name (Current Position) |
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Christopher Granger Atkeson (Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) |
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Biographical Outline |
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Sept., 2000 -- |
Associate Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University |
Jan., 1994 -- Aug., 2000 |
Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Jul., 1990 -- Dec., 1993 |
Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT |
Nov., 1986 -- Dec., 1993 |
Member of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
Nov., 1986 -- Jun., 1990 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT |
1986 |
Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Title of thesis for Ph.D. ''Roles of Knowledge in Motor Learning''
Thesis Supervisor: Emilio Bizz
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1981 |
S.M. in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science), Harvard University |
1981 |
A.B. summa cum laude in Biochemistry, 1981, Harvard University |
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Fields of Research |
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Numerical Machine Learning, Humanoid Robotics, and Intelligent Environment
My research focuses on numerical approaches to machine learning, and uses humanoid robotics and intelligent environments as domains in which to explore the behavior of learning algorithms. Past work was on model-based learning, task ?level learning, and memory-based learning. Current work includes programming through demonstration, reinforcement learning, and learning strategies.
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Academic Activities |
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1989 |
Program committee for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation |
1990-1994 |
Program committee for Conference on Neural Networks for Computing |
1991 |
Program committee for International Joint Conference on Neural Networks |
1993 |
Program committee for Neural Information Processing Systems |
1991, 1995 |
Program committee for IEEE/RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robot and Systems (IROS) |
1995, 1996, 2001 |
Program committee for International Conference on Machine Learning |
1997-2001 |
Editorial Board, Machine Learning Journal |
2003 |
US Program Committee Chair, Humanoid 2003 |
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5. |
Award and Honors |
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1987-1988 |
National Science Foundation Engineering Initiation Award |
1988-1993 |
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award |
1988-1990 |
W. M. Keck Foundation Assistant Professorship in Biomedical Engineering |
1989-1991 |
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow |
1990 |
Teaching Award from the MIT Graduate Student Council |
1990-1991 |
M. Keck Foundation Assistant Professorship in Biomedical Engineering/td> |
1995 |
Edenfield Faculty Fellowship Award |
2000 |
Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICRA 2000 |
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