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Short Bio:

Currently I am a postdoc at for Aude Billard at EPFL in the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA). I recently completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University. There I worked with Odest Chadwicke Jenkins as a member of RLAB (Robotics, Learning and Autonomy at Brown). I also got my Masters of Science in Computer Science from Brown in 2005, after getting my Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University in 2003. There I worked with Brian Scassellati, as part of the Social Robotics Lab. During the summers I have worked variously with Gillian Hayes at the Mobile Robotics Group of the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, Brian Yamauchi at iRobot Corporation, and Carsten Magerkurth at the Fraunhofer Institute (AMBIENTE).

Research Summary:

My research is at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. Specifically, in the area of Human-Robot Interaction I focus on Human-Robot Policy Transfer, where a human user instantiates, on a robot, an autonomous control policy to perform a desired task. I approach this problem from a Learning from Demonstration standpoint, whereby the control policy is estimated from data representative of demonstrations of the task. I use teleoperative demonstration to avoid correspondence issues and frame tasks as learning finite state machines. Within this context, I have focused on learning the number of machine states and their individual policies using nonparametric Bayesian methods.

Recent Activities:

Teaching old dogs new tricks: Incremental multimap regression for interactive robot learning from demonstration.
Daniel H Grollman.
PhD thesis, Brown University, May 2010.
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Robots, and Learning, and the Future! Oh my!.
Applied Minds, Glendale, CA, July 2009.
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Rgame: Embodied gaming for robot learning by demonstration.
IJCAI 2009 Robot Challenge - LbD, Pasadena, CA, July 2009.
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Contact info:
Daniel Grollman
EPFL, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
EPFL-STI-I2S-LASA, Station 9
CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland


Tel: (+41) 21 693 5309
Fax: (+41) 21 693 78 50