Workshops & Tutorials

Workshops will take place across four days of the conference July 12 through 15, 2021.

Each workshop is organized as a semi-independent event, and has a unique schedule reflecting the planned activities, constraints and preferences of the organizers. Please check the workshop websites for more details on their particular schedules.

Monday, July 12

ID	Day	Title	Organizers
T1	12th After interactive session	Tutorial on End-to-end GPU-accelerated Learning and Control for Robotics with Isaac Gym	Viktor Makoviychuk (NVIDIA) Gavriel State (NVIDIA) Yashraj Viktor Makoviychuk (NVIDIA) Gavriel State (NVIDIA) Yashraj Narang (NVIDIA) Rika Antonova (Stanford / NVIDIA) Yuke Zhu (UT Austin / NVIDIA) Josiah Wong (Stanford / NVIDIA) Ankur Handa (NVIDIA Research)
W1	12th After interactive session	Integrating Planning and Learning	Panpan Cai (NUS) Danny Driess (TU Berlin) Panpan Cai (NUS) Danny Driess (TU Berlin) Peter Karkus (NUS) Gilwoo Lee (Zordi Inc.) Yiyuan Lee (NUS) Ozgur Oguz (Uni Stuttgart) Jeannette Bohg (Stanford) Russ Tedrake (MIT) Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin)
W2	12th After interactive session	Accessibility of Robot Programming and the Work of the Future	Ben Armstrong (MIT) Suzanne Berger (MIT) Susan Ben Armstrong (MIT) Suzanne Berger (MIT) Susan Helper (CWRU) Lindsay Sanneman (MIT) Ankit Shah (MIT) Julie Shah (MIT) Anna Waldman-Brown (MIT)
W7	12-13 Multiple times	Founding Robotics Startups with a PhD	Scott C. Livingston (rerobots Inc.) Scott C. Livingston (rerobots Inc.)

Tuesday, July 13

ID	Day	Title	Organizers
W3	13th After interactive session	Advancing A.I. and Manipulation for Robotics: Understanding Gaps, Industry and Academic Perspectives, and Community Building	Clemens Eppner (NVIDIA) Neel Doshi (MIT) Megan Clemens Eppner (NVIDIA) Neel Doshi (MIT) Megan Zimmerman (NIST) Siyuan Dong (UW) Devesh Jha (MERL) Diego Romeres (MERL) Alberto Rodriguez (MIT) Michel Beyer (ETH Zürich) Coline Devin (Deepmind) Arsalan Mousavian (NVIDIA) Jingyi Xu (TU München) Andy Zeng (Google AI) Craig Schlenoff (NIST) Holly Yanco (UML) Adam Norton (UML) Vinh Nguyen (NIST) Siddarth Jain (MERL)
W4	13th After interactive session	Social Robot Navigation	Christoforos Mavrogiannis (U Wash) Pete Trautman (Honda Christoforos Mavrogiannis (U Wash) Pete Trautman (Honda Research) Francesca Baldini (Caltech) Marynel Vázquez (Yale) Leila Takayama (UC Santa Cruz) Siddhartha Srinivasa (U Wash)
W5	13th After interactive session	Software Tools for Real-Time Optimal Control	Brian Jackson (CMU) Zachary Manchester (CMU) Farbod Brian Jackson (CMU) Zachary Manchester (CMU) Farbod Farshidian (ETH Zürich)
W6	13th After interactive session	Visual Learning and Reasoning for Robotics	Kuan Fang (Stanford) David Held (CMU) Yuke Kuan Fang (Stanford) David Held (CMU) Yuke Zhu (UT Austin / NVIDIA) Dinesh Jayaraman (U Penn) Lin Sun (Magic Leap) Animesh Garg (U Toronto / NVIDIA) Yu Xiang (NVIDIA) Greg Dudek (McGill / Samsung Research)
W7	12-13 Multiple times	Founding Robotics Startups with a PhD	Scott C. Livingston (rerobots Inc.) Scott C. Livingston (rerobots Inc.)

Wednesday, July 14

ID	Day	Title	Organizers
W8	14th After interactive session	Robotics × Arts Exhibition: Opportunities and Issues in Robotics Applied in the Arts	Sang Leigh (GaTech) Jean Oh (CMU) Frank Sang Leigh (GaTech) Jean Oh (CMU) Frank Dellaert (GaTech) Seth Hutchinson (GaTech) Peter Schaldenbrand (CMU) Gerry Chen (GaTech) Juan D Florez-Castillo (GaTech)
W9	14th After interactive session	Perception and Control for Autonomous Navigation in Crowded, Dynamic Environments	Philip Dames (Temple U) Mac Schwager (Stanford) Philip Dames (Temple U) Mac Schwager (Stanford) Negar Mehr (UIUC)

Thursday, July 15

ID	Day	Title	Organizers
W10	15th After interactive session	Robotics for People: Perspectives on Interaction, Learning, and Safety	Amir Aly (U Plymouth) Andrea Bajcsy (UC Amir Aly (U Plymouth) Andrea Bajcsy (UC Berkeley) Somil Bansal (UC Berkeley) Kim Baraka (Vrije Universiteit) Aude Billard (EPFL) Angelo Cangelosi (U Manchester) Filipa Correia (U Lisbon) Jaime Fernández-Fisac (Princeton) Chelsea Finn (Stanford) Tesca Fitzgerald (CMU) David Fridovich-Keil (Stanford) Matthew Gombolay (GaTech) Nakul Gopalan (GaTech) Melissa Greeff (U Toronto) Sylvia Herbert (UC San Diego) Shreyas Kousik (Stanford) Stefanos Nikolaidis (USC) Verena Nitsch (RWTH Aachen) Srikanth Nouduri (RWTH Aachen) Angela P. Schoellig (U Toronto) Athanasios Polydoros (EPFL) Ransalu Senananayake (Stanford) Reid Simmons (CMU) Harold Soh (NUS) SiQi Zhou (U Toronto)
W11	15th Straddles interactive session	Declarative and Neurosymbolic Representations in Robot Learning and Control	Alper Ahmetoglu (Bogazici U) Shiqi Zhang (SUNY Alper Ahmetoglu (Bogazici U) Shiqi Zhang (SUNY Binghamton) Roderic Grupen (U Mass) Yuqian Jiang (UT Austin) Matteo Leonetti (U Leeds) Tiffany Liu (U Mass) Erhan Oztop (Osaka U/ Ozyegin U) Justus Piater (U Innsbruck) Benjamin Rosman (U Witwatersrand) Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan U) Emre Ugur (Bogazici U)
W12	15th After interactive session	Geometry and Topology in Robotics: Learning, Optimization, Planning, and Control	Noémie Jaquier (KIT) Claire Liang (Cornell) Christoforos Noémie Jaquier (KIT) Claire Liang (Cornell) Christoforos Mavrogiannis (U Wash) Leonel Rozo (Bosch A.I.) Vasileios Vasilopoulos (U Penn) Hans-Peter Schröcker (U Innsbruck) Søren Hauberg (TU Denmark) Subhrajit Bhattacharya (Lehigh) Florian Pokorny (KTH) Siddhartha S. Srinivasa (U Wash) Suvrit Sra (MIT)
W13	15th Straddles interactive session	DO-Sim: Deformable Object Simulation in Robotics	Yashraj Narang (NVIDIA) Yunzhu Li (MIT) Miles Yashraj Narang (NVIDIA) Yunzhu Li (MIT) Miles Macklin (NVIDIA) Dale McConachie (TRI) Jane Wu (Stanford)
W14	15th After interactive session	Behavioral Inference of Remotely Sensed Multi-agent Systems	Eduardo Montijano (U Zaragoza) George Stantchev (US Eduardo Montijano (U Zaragoza) George Stantchev (US NRL / U Maryland) Colin Olson (US NRL) Ana Cristina Murillo (U Zaragoza) Margarita Chli (ETH Zürich)