Event Description
The ECE Department is excited to
announce an academic seminar with Dr. Alex Fridman on
Thursday, October 4th, 2018 from 4:00-5:00PM in Bossone 302
. Dr. Fridman is a 3-time
alum of Drexel University, having earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the
ECE Department. Please consider joining us for this talk, which will center on
semi-autonomous vehicles.
Bio
:
Lex Fridman is a research scientist at MIT, working on deep learning approaches
to perception, control, and planning in the context of semi-autonomous vehicles
and more generally human-centered artificial intelligence systems. His work
focuses on learning-based methods that leverage large-scale, real-world data.
Lex received his BS, MS, and PhD from Drexel University where he worked on
applications of machine learning, computer vision, and decision fusion
techniques in a number of fields including robotics, active authentication, and
activity recognition. Before joining MIT, Lex was at Google leading deep
learning efforts for large-scale behavior-based authentication. Lex is a
recipient of a CHI-17 best paper award and a CHI-18 best paper honorable
mention award.
Dr. Fridman will present a human-centered paradigm for building autonomous
vehicle systems, contrasting it with how the problem is currently formulated
and approached in academia and industry. The talk will include discussion and
video demonstration of new work on driver state sensing, voice-based transfer
of control, annotation of large-scale naturalistic driving data, and the
challenges of building and testing a human-centered autonomous vehicle at MIT.
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