HEATLab

07/07/2022

Who am I?

06/21/2022

draw me like one of your french robots

06/15/2022

HEAT Lab is in full motion this summer!

06/30/2021

Congratulations to Priya Donti ‘15 for being recognized as one of MIT’s prestigious 35 Innovators Under 35 for their visionary work in Climate Change and AI! A true leader in their field with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society! Congrats!

Finding climate-change solutions via computer science and public policy.

12/16/2020

Congrats to HEATLab member Lindsay Popowski who was named a recipient of the 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!

Congrats also to fellow Harvey Mudd student Abtin Molavi who was named a finalist for this award!

This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

Impressive!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2021 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. This year’s nominees are a very impressive group. A number of them were commended for making significant co…

10/27/2020

Dr. Elaine Short of the Tufts CS/MechE Department is holding a Twitch livestream of her setting up a trick-or-treat Kinova robot arm from 6-9pm ET on 10/29. This is a great chance to learn about robotics, ROS, her lab, and grad school — or to just watch a professor get just as frustrated at her code as you do at yours!

The livestream will be held at https://www.twitch.tv/aablrobotics on 6pm EST on Thursday 10/29. You will be able to make fun and witty comments or ask Dr. Short questions in the chat!

10/19/2020

Congrats to Shyan Akmal, Savana Ammons, Michael Gao, Maggie Li, and Lindsay Popowski! Their journal manuscript entitled "Quantifying controllability in temporal networks with uncertainty" will be published in the upcoming December 2020 edition of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, a top, international AI research journal.

This paper represents the culmination of work by five Harvey Mudd College students across multiple summers of research and is composed of both current and (now) former HMC students who are continuing their research careers at places like MIT, UIUC, Stanford, and Cornell!

10/13/2020

Congrats to Summer 2020 HEATlabbers Maya Abo Dominguez and William La, whose paper entitled “Modeling Human Temporal Uncertainty in Human-Agent Teams” was accepted for presentation at the 2020 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for Human-Robot Interaction!

Pre-print available here:

Automated scheduling is potentially a very useful tool for facilitating efficient, intuitive interactions between a robot and a human teammate. However, a current gapin automated scheduling is that it is not well understood how to best represent the timing uncertainty that human teammates introduce....

08/24/2020

04/30/2020

Dear Mudders,

Since we won’t get to say goodbye in person, I thought I’d try to articulate a few thoughts as you complete your academic year~~

You made it. Well done.

Nothing’s normal; It's ok to stop pretending.
Dare to believe you’re enough anyways.
I see you. I believe.

Measure yourself by how you love.
Start with loving yourself.
Be human. Be humane.

Embrace curiosity alongside courage.
Embrace growth amid failure.
Embrace friends with all you got.

Practice compassion.
Practice grace.
And as Wendell Berry's Mad Farmer exhorts,
Practice resurrection.

Miss you all dearly,
—prof. jim

03/31/2020

Congrats to HEATLab member Savana Ammons on being awarded the 2020 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Congrats also to the other 2020 Harvey Mudd College NSF GRFP awardees, Emily Hwang, Morgan Blevins, and Forest Kobayashi, as well as our nine honorable mentions!

Amazing job Mudders!