Overview

​​Penn Engineering is hosting a Symposium on “Personalized Intelligent Living: Human, Robot, and Nature” at the Penn Wharton China Center (PWCC) in Beijing June 28-30.  The goal is to develop international engineering partnership through AI, robotics, and smart material technology. The Symposium will showcase robotics developments in research labs from Penn to China, as well as projects poster competition.

Organizer: Prof. Jianbo Shi         Prof. Shu Yang

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Schedule & Themes

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Day 1  June 28  

Session 1: 
Geometry, Mechanics, Bioinspired Materials, Robotics  (Chair: Shu Yang)​​

8:30 - 9:15 am
The Mathematics of Paper
Randall Kamien

• Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

​9:15 - 10:00 am
Origami robotics
Cynthia Sung

• Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics​, University of Pennsylvania​​

10:00 – 10:15 am
Brief group introduction & tea/coffee break
​10:15 - 11:00 am
Tutorial:Analyzing Biological Structures for Advanced Materials
Shu Yang

• Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

​11:00 - 11:30 am​
Engineering Biointerface with Controlled Cell Adhesion towards Cancer Diagnostics
Shutao Wang  王树涛

• Professor and Director, Division of Science and Technology at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

​11:30 - 12:00 am​
Reconfigurable liquid crystalline elastomers for soft robots
Yan Ji 吉岩

• Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University​

Noon – 1:00 pm  Lunch

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Session 2:
Flexible Electronics & Mechanics 
(Chair, Milin Zhang)

​1:30 - 2:15 pm
Universal Kirigami
Yonggang Huang

• Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University

2:15 - 2:45 pm
Bioinspired Sensors
Milin Zhang  张沕琳

• Assistant Professor, Department of EE, Tsinghua University

​2:45 - 3:15 pm
Bio-3D printing — Design and Fabrication of Living Constructs with 3D Printing Techniques
Ting Zhang  张婷

• Associate Professor, Biomanufacturing Center, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

3:10 - 3:45 pm
Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:30 pm
Panel Discussion

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Day 2  June 29

Robotics

8:30 am
Clocks and Inner Oscillators: Re-examing the Role of Feedforward and Feedback Gait Generators
Dan Koditscheck

• Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania​

9:15 am
Event-based Vision for Challenging Speeds and Illuminations ​
Kostas Daniilidis

• Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania​​

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​10:00 – 10:30 am
Brief group introduction & tea/coffee break
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10:30 am
Autonomous Aerial Navigation using Monocular 
​Visual
Frank(Shaojie) Shen

• Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

11:00 am
Adaptive Human Robot Interaction and open research platform
Yiming Zhang

• Intel Lab​

11:30 am – 12:00 pm
Poster Spotlight
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Lunch & Poster Presentation

Sensors

1:30 pm
Autonomous Driving
Feiyue Wang, 王飞跃

• Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2:00 pm
Autonomous driving: how to overcome the technical and commercial challenges
Gansha Wu

• CEO, Uisee Technology​

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​2:30 - 3:00 pm
3D Scene Perception and Multi-Modal Learning
Huimin Ma

• ​Professor, Tsinghua University

3:00 - 4:00 pm
Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
4:00 - 4:30 pm
无人驾驶智能车辆的发展现状和关键技术
Yi Han 韩毅

• 长安大学副教授

4:30 - 5:00 pm
Round Table Discussion and Q & A

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Day 3  June 30

 Computer Vision & Machine Learning

​8:30 am
Moving Camera, Living Images: Visual Learning from First Person Video
Jianbo Shi

• Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

9:15 am
​Computer Vision, Edge Computing and IoT
Hai Tao

• CEO, ViON Technology​

10:00 - 10:30 am 
Brief group introduction & tea/coffee break

10:30 am
​First-Order Optimization Methods in Machine Learning​
Zhouchen Lin

• Professor, Peking University

11:00 am
CNN Architecture Design: from Deeper to Wide
Jingdong Wang

• Microsoft Research Asia

11:30 am -12:00 pm 
Poster Spotlight
Noon -1:30 pm 
Lunch & Poster Presentation

1:30 pm
AI at Baidu Research
Yuanqing Lin

• Head of Vision Research, Baidu

2:00 pm
Giving VR/AR Eyes and Brain
Jingyi Yu

• Professor, Shanghai Tech University

​3:00 -4:30 pm 
Break & Poster Presentation
4:30 -5:00 pm 
Round Table Discussion and Q&A

Learn More

    #Nature         

Bio-Inspired materials: nature provides us fascinating examples with remarkable properties. Butterflies display a dazzling array of colors on their wings, which are also light-weight, non-wettable, and highly flexible for flying. Cephalopod is a master of underwater camouflage, which changes the skin from transparency to red to avoid predators. Importantly, bioorganisms respond to environmental change passively with minimal energy. We will mine the biology for mechanisms and optimization strategies to address issues such as locomotion, defense, adaptivity, and durability for robotics.
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​                   #Robotics

Automated movement: automated flying, driverless car is a technology that will have a major impact on our society.  We will bring together researchers at the forefront of research and development from the academia and industry.  We will offer tutorials on visual navigation, intelligent interaction of people and drivers.

#Human & AI
            #Computer Vision

Intelligent agent: computer vision and machine learning are creating major technological advances.  How our daily living can benefit from these advances?  We will bring a team of speakers who are at the forefront of Visual recognition, Argumented Reality (AR), Face recognition, and home AI.   Tutorials and technological overviews will be provided.
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Event speakers

Dr. Randall Kamien

Dr. Shu Yang

Dr. Dan Koditscheck

Dr. Cynthia Sung

Dr. Kostas Daniilidis

Dr. Jianbo Shi
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Participation

We invite researchers from academic institutions as well as companies to participate poster presentations.  Winners of the poster presentation will be given a prize at the conclusion of each day.

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