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Co-organizing the Insect-scale Autonomy workshop at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh. The workshop looks at how reliable autonomy can be achieved on severely resource-constrained platforms, where perception, mechanics, computation, and control all have to fit within insect-scale limits.
Presented work on insect-inspired AI at the 2026 Telluride Neuromorphic AI Workshop, held June 28 – July 17 in Telluride, Colorado, and contributed to several of the workshop project groups.
CGTN America ran a feature on insect-inspired AI and autonomous robots at UMD, covering navigation, communication, and camera stabilization for small aerial robots.
PolarDepth was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and is scheduled for presentation at IROS 2026. It uses a single polarization camera to recover depth around transparent and reflective surfaces, where RGB and active depth sensors typically fail.
Received a Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from the UMD Department of Computer Science for the 2025–2026 academic year.
The insect-inspired AI framework was selected for the poster session at the inaugural AIM Research & Learning Symposium, held by the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland in the Stamp Student Union.
PolarDepth was presented at NYU Vision Day (NYC Computer Vision Day), hosted at New York University on 27 April 2026, a day of lightning talks, keynotes, and posters for the computer vision community around New York.
Ran drone demonstrations with the Perception and Robotics Group and the Maryland Robotics Center at Maryland Day 2026, UMD’s campus-wide open house.
Presented the poster “Purposive Perception: Task Aware Sensing for Robot Navigation” at the inaugural Princeton Robotics Symposium, covering coded-aperture visual odometry and PolarDepth as routes to metric depth from a single camera.
Co-presented bio-inspired aerial robotics at UMD’s AI Demo Day: camera stabilization for flapping-wing Flapper drones and autonomous obstacle navigation on palm-sized Crazyflie platforms. The Baltimore Sun covered the showcase.
Awarded a UMD Future Faculty Fellowship for 2025–2027, a program that prepares doctoral researchers for academic careers.
CodedVO was presented at the ICRA40 anniversary event in Rotterdam, highlighting coded-aperture visual odometry and metric scale recovery from monocular imagery.