Today I am thankful for my health, job, neighbors, & above all, for my family. The loud moments and the quiet moments, this amazing time with them and the time to myself, the hard times and the easy times, the tears and the laughs. There is no one better to quarantine with.

Find out more about USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science research at #AAAI21! Members of the #USC community present 24 papers in the main track at this year's virtual event. viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/02/u… Bistra Dilkina Aida Rahmattalabi, PhD Umang Gupta Nora Ayanian USC ISI USC Viterbi School #AI AAAI

Fun moderating the discussion on Robot Swarms in the Real World with panelists Nora Ayanian, Spring Berman, Dan Goldman, and Rafael de la Guardia. Well done to Siddharth Mayya, Gennaro Notomista, Roderich Gross and Vijay Kumar for the great workshop! sites.google.com/view/realworld…

USC Viterbi School SHINE Students: 🗓 This afternoon, Eric Ewing from Prof. Nora Ayanian's ACT Lab will be leading a SHINE session on Machine Learning from 1-3 pm! Hope to see you there!

It's about time I announce I've officially moved to Brown University! I will be forever grateful to my colleagues and for all I was empowered to accomplish USC Viterbi School and USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science. I'm excited for all the opportunities this move brings!

I need to add that when I said colleagues I also meant the staff of USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science. They are an amazing team and were always there and ready with assistance/solutions when I needed them. They also became my friends! I will miss you, too!

I know I said I missed the snow when I was in SoCal but yesterday it hit 60° and this morning I woke up to this

I'm revamping my grad course on coordinated mobile #robotics. The focus is on #multirobot systems but it's self contained and will cover topics relevant to multi-robot systems. Suggestions on papers to include as assigned readings and why they're important?

Fluids and thermal sciences grad student of Nora Ayanian and Kenny Breuer Anoop Kiran (Anoop Kiran) named one of 20 grad students in world likely to change the face of the aerospace and defense industry. engineering.brown.edu/news/2022-09-0…

Congrats Anoop Kiran! Welcome to brown!

@BrownCS is hiring lecturers. Energetic students, mature undergrad TA program, mix of teaching lower-and upper-level CS courses, research participation, and a dept-wide effort in integrated social responsibility. Check us out or DM with questions: apply.interfolio.com/112787

Brown computer scientist Suresh Venkatasubramanian helped the The White House develop the nation’s first “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” which was announced today and provides key actions and guidance to ethical practices in an era of data-driven technologies. brown.edu/news/2022-10-0…

So much useful information in this thread for all disciplines. Definitely follows the strategy we use—writing always helps clarify our goals and is useful even without a specific paper and/or publication venue in mind.

After what seems like an eternity, they’re finally here. We’re ready. Let’s go!

The 2023 version of the International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) will be held in Boston December 4 -5 with the paper deadline on June 26. Any multi-agent or multi-robot work is welcome! More details are on the website: sites.bu.edu/mrs2023/

The International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent System will be held on December 4 -5, 2023, in-person at Boston University in Boston, MA Website: sites.bu.edu/mrs2023/ CfP: sites.bu.edu/mrs2023/call-f… Paper Submission Deadline: June, 26, 2023

Attendees at #SXSW 2024 would love to see Nora Ayanian, NASA JPL's Amir Rahmani, Giovanni Beltrame, and me talk about SWARM ROBOTICS, right?? Please vote for our topic on the SXSW PanelPicker® shar.es/afNluG

Our paper on real-time decentralized cooperative #robot navigation is online! No preplanning or comm b/w robots, navigate through cluttered environments by sensing position only, while significant reducing deadlocks. Paper: doi.org/10.1007/s10514… Video: youtu.be/Jrdvf2qyzrg

So exciting! Go @sydneyskybetter and Rishika! Looking forward to listening

#robotics X, I’m looking for a “definitive” text that surveys modern robotics, akin to George Bekey’s text “Autonomous Robots: From biological inspiration to implementation and control” but more recent. Any pointers?