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Career

· Professor, Carnegie Mellon University2018–
· Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University2006–2018
· Assistant Professor, Brown University1998–2003
· Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Tech1996–1998
· Various Roles, Industry1994–1996
· PhD in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1994–
· B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston1986–

Publications (100)

Data-Driven Grasp Synthesis Using Shape Matching and Task-Based Pruning
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2007
189
cited
Physically based grasping control from example
Symposium on Computer Animation · 2005
175
cited
DynaMMo: mining and summarization of coevolving sequences with missing values
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining · 2009
173
cited
Real-time gradient-domain painting
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2008
140
cited
An integrated system for autonomous robotics manipulation
2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2012
115
cited
Fast simulation of skeleton-driven deformable body characters
TOGS · 2011
106
cited
Pre- and post-contact policy decomposition for planar contact manipulation under uncertainty
Int. J. Robotics Res. · 2014
98
cited
Pose estimation for planar contact manipulation with manifold particle filters
Int. J. Robotics Res. · 2015
90
cited
Constrained least-squares optimization for robust estimation of center of rotation.
Journal of Biomechanics · 2007
89
cited
Pose estimation for contact manipulation with manifold particle filters
2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2013
84
cited
Evaluating motion graphs for character animation
TOGS · 2007
80
cited
Physically Based Grasp Quality Evaluation Under Pose Uncertainty
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2013
80
cited
Efficient touch based localization through submodularity
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2012
77
cited
A shape matching algorithm for synthesizing humanlike enveloping grasps
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots · 2005
73
cited
Method for Determining Kinematic Parameters of the In Vivo Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering · 2008
73
cited
A taxonomy of everyday grasps in action
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots · 2014
70
cited
Local layering
ACM Transactions on Graphics · 2009
70
cited
Feature selection for grasp recognition from optical markers
2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2007
65
cited
Evaluating motion graphs for character navigation
Symposium on Computer Animation · 2004
64
cited
Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2010
61
cited
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