Kris M. Kitaniمشاهده پروفایل
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Kris M. Kitani is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University and a Research Scientist at Meta's Artificial Intelligence division. He co-directs the Extended Reality Technology Center (XRTC) at CMU and holds courtesy appointments in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at CMU and as a Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science. Education : BS in Electrical Engineering (University of Southern California), MS and PhD in Computer Science (University of Tokyo) Labs : Cognitive Assistance Laboratory His research focuses on computer vision , human activity forecasting , and inverse reinforcement learning with applications in human-centered robotics and assistive technologies . Recent work explores 3D scene understanding , multi-modal sensing , and generative models for physical simulation . Publications analyze pedestrian interaction modeling , human pose estimation , and zero-shot learning for robotic applications. Scientific Awards : Marr Prize Honorable Mention, ICCV 2017 Best Paper Honorable Mentions at CHI 2017/2020 Best Papers at W4A 2017/2019 Best Application Paper, ACCV 2014 Kitani has advised 8 current PhD students and 18 past PhD/MSc students. He has taught graduate-level courses in Computer Vision and Statistical Techniques in Robotics since 2013. The lab develops autonomous systems for real-world perception and interactive decision-making.





