Selected Professional Activities
- Associate Editor
- IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2011 and 2012
- Steering Committee
- IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion 2009--present
- Co-Chair
- Medical Robotics: Tracking & Detection, IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2011
- Motion Planning, IEEE Intl Conf on Robotics and Automation 2010
- Program Committee
- Intl Conf on Automated Planning and Scheduling, "Combining Task and Motion Planning for Real-World Applications," Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012
- Robotics: Science & Systems, Los Angeles, CA 2011
- Robotics: Science & Systems, Zaragoza, Spain 2010
- Intl Conf on Automated Planning and Scheduling, "Bridging the Gap Between Task and Motion Planning," Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009
- Workshops Co-organized
- "Motion planning with the OOPSMP toolkit: A hands-on tutorial on using state-of-the-art motion planning algorithms." IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, 2008
- Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- Intl Journal of Robotics Research
- Autonomous Robots
- Automatica
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Conference Reviewer
- Robotics: Science and Systems
- IEEE Intl Conf on Robotics and Automation
- IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf on Intelligent Robots and Systems
- Intl Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
- Intl Conf on Automated Deduction
- Intl Conf on Automated Planning and Scheduling
- IEEE RAS/EMBS Intl Conf on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
- Intl Conf on Intelligent Robotics and Applications
University Awards, Committees, and Services
- Chair of EECS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Fall 2012)
- DC FIRST Robotics CUA Exhibition (2012)
- Burns Faculty Fellowship Award (2011)
- Engineering New Frontiers Committee (Summer 2011, Summer 2012)
- Computer Science Curriculum Revision Committee (Fall 2010, Spring 2011)
- Computer Science Open House (Oct 2011, Jan 2012)
- EECS Webmaster (Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2012)
- Chantilly High School Robotics (Summer 2011)