VITA

Assistant Professor (2010 - present), Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Texas at Austin

Postdoctoral Fellow (2007 - 2009), Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Ph.D. (2007) Electrical Engineering Department, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University

M.SC. (2000) Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University

B.S. (1996) School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona, Technical University of Catalonia

1996-1998, Control Engineer, Phase 2 Automation, Silicon Valley

CV (PDF)

RECENT TALKS

The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, July 2009.

The University of Tokyo, Japan, July 2009.

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR), Seika City, Japan, July 2009.

Willow Garage, Menlo Park, June 2009.

University of Texas at Austin, Department of Computer Science, April 2009.

 The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, February 2009.

The Boeing Company: Network Systems Laboratory, Seattle, February 2009.

Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microlectronique de Montpellier, France, January 2009.

Workshop on Cognitive Animation, (CogAnim 2008), Yosemite National Park, USA, June 2008.

Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning (NIPS 2007), Whistler, Canada, December 2007.

Workshop on Motion Planning for Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2007), Pittsburgh, December 2007.

Stanford University, Bioengineering Department, November 2007.

Workshop on Collision-Free Motion Planning for Dynamic Systems (ICRA 2007), Rome, Italy, May 2007.