Here is my CV.
Short Bio for Seminars
Siddhartha Srinivasa is a Professor at The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and an IEEE Fellow. He is a full-stack roboticist, with the goal of enabling robots to perform complex manipulation tasks under uncertainty and clutter, with and around people. To this end, he founded the Personal Robotics Lab in 2005. He is a PI on the Quality of Life Technologies NSF ERC, RCTA, DARPA ARM-S, DARPA Robotics Challenge, and DARPA RACER, and has built several robots (HERB, ADA, CHIMP, MuSHR), and has written software frameworks (OpenRAVE, DART) and best-paper award winning algorithms (CBiRRT, CHOMP, BIT*, Legibility, LazySP) used extensively by roboticists around the world. Sidd received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1999, and a PhD in 2005 from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He played badminton and tennis for IIT Madras, captained the CMU squash team, ran long-distance competitively, and lately plays tennis.
Awards
| Year(s) | Award | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ACM/IEEE HRI Best Demo Award Winner | An adaptable, safe, and portable robot-assisted feeding system |
| 2023 | ACM/IEEE HRI Best Paper Award Winner for Design | Design principles for robot-assisted feeding in social contexts |
| 2019 | ICAPS Best Student Paper Award Winner | Generalized Lazy Search for Robot Motion Planning: Interleaving Search and Edge Evaluation via Event-based Toggles |
| 2019 | ACM/IEEE HRI Best Paper Award Winner for Technical Advances in HRI | Transfer depends on Acquisition: Analyzing Manipulation Strategies for Robotic Feeding |
| 2018 | IEEE Fellow | For contributions to robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction |
| 2018 | ICAPS Best Paper Award Winner | The Provable Virtue of Laziness in Motion Planning |
| 2018 | ACM/IEEE HRI Best Paper Award Finalist | Planning with Trust for Human-Robot Collaboration |
| 2017-22 | Boeing Endowed Professorship in Computer Science | University of Washington |
| 2017 | CMU Women’s Association Outstanding Graduating Senior Advisor | Student: Rachel Holladay, now PhD at MIT |
| 2016 | IEEE ICRA Best Vision Paper Award Finalist | Articulated Robot Manipulator Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (ARM-SLAM) |
| 2015 | RSS Best Systems Paper Award Finalist | CHISEL: Real Time Large Scale 3D Reconstruction Onboard a Mobile Device |
| 2014 | IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper Award Finalist | Movement Primitives via Optimization |
| 2014 | IEEE ICRA Best Video Award Finalist | Extrinsic Dexterity: In-Hand Manipulation with External Forces |
| 2013-16 | Finmeccanica Chair in Computer Science | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2013 | RSS Early Career Spotlight Award | The Mathematics of Human Robot Interaction |
| 2013 | RSS Best Paper Award Finalist | Generating Legible Motion |
| 2013 | IEEE ICRA Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist | Efficient Touch Based Localization through Submodularity |
| 2013 | Robotics Institute Cool Person of the Year Award | Awarded by the Robotics Students Organization |
| 2012 | Okawa Foundation Research Grant | Historical Recipient List |
| 2012 | Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award | Historical Recipient List |
| 2012 | IEEE RO-MAN Best Paper Award Finalist | Online Customization of Teleoperation Interfaces |
| 2012 | RSS Best Paper Award Finalist | Formalizing Assistive Teleoperation |
| 2011 | IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award | Founder of IEEE RAS TC on Mobile Manipulation |
| 2010 | ACM/IEEE HRI Best Paper Award Winner | Gracefully mitigating breakdowns in robotic services |
| 2010 | IEEE IROS Best Paper Award Finalist | Push-grasping with dexterous hands: Mechanics and a method |
| 2010 | IEEE ICRA Best Manipulation Paper Award Finalist | Planning pre-grasp manipulation for transport tasks |
| 2009 | IEEE ICRA Best Vision Paper Award Finalist | Object recognition and full pose registration from a single image for robotic manipulation |
| 2008 | Intel Corporate Technology Group Divisional Recognition Awards | May, July, October |
| 2006-07 | Intel Research Pittsburgh Lab Research Awards | January, July 2006, January 2007 |
| 1997-98 | Jawaharlal Nehru Summer Research Fellowship | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
| 1997-98 | Rajiv Gandhi Award for Best Summer Research Fellow | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
| 1994 | Indian National Mathematics Olympiad |