[AI Seminar Series] AI Seminar by Prof. Hang Qiu, Friday November 15, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

The next talk at the AI Seminar Series, will be next Friday, November 
15, 12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).

**** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****

To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-seminar-series-tickets-1079002889689

The talk will be given by Prof. Hang Qiu, Department of Electrical and 
Computer Engineering, UCR

TITLE:
"Robust Cooperative AI in Autonomous Systems"

ABSTRACT:
Recent years have seen tremendous iterations on autonomous driving 
technologies, pushing the deployment of self-driving cars closer to its 
realization. As the experimental deployments scale, more challenging and 
less frequent corner cases surface to stress-test the reliability of the 
autonomous driving system. Examples of these corner cases include 
limited visibility due to occlusion, degraded perception at long range, 
transient reflection and so on. To address the limited visibility issue, 
in particular, cooperative perception has been proposed to leverage 
vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication to share perception data with 
nearby vehicles to fill in the invisible area. In this talk, I will 
present a line of cooperative perception system research from its 
initial prototyping, and scaling up, to its expansion from perception to 
end-to-end driving behaviors.


Bio:
Dr. Hang Qiu is an Assistant Professor at ECE and a cooperating faculty 
at CSE at the University of California, Riverside. Prof. Qiu leads the 
Collaborative Intelligence Systems Lab (CISL) which innovates in 
cooperative robots and networked autonomous systems. Qiu is also a 
faculty member of the RAISE at UCR Institute, the Center for Robotics and 
Intelligent Systems (CRIS), and a faculty member of Center for 
Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT). Before joining UCR, 
Prof. Qiu was a software engineer at Waymo, Google’s (Alphabet’s) 
self-driving car spin-off, a postdoctoral scholar in the Platform Lab at 
Stanford University, worked in Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and 
collaborated with General Motors for over five years. Qiu received the 
Ph.D. degree from the Networked Systems Lab at University of Southern 
California, and the bachelor degree from the IIoT at Shanghai Jiao Tong 
University.

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Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents 
speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or apply AI in their 
research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community 
about current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between 
faculty in this emerging field.
These seminars are open to interested faculty and graduate students. 
Please forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in 
your lab that may be interested. After the seminar a discussion will 
follow for questions, open problems, ideas for possible collaborations 
etc.

Sincerely,
Vassilis Tsotras
Professor, CSE Department
co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute

Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Professor, ECE Department
co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute