Assistant Computer Science

DOV KATZ

Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, September 2011

Advisor: Prof. Oliver Brock

Thesis Committee: Prof. Andrew Barto, Prof. Erik G. Learned-Miller, Prof. Andrew Cohen

M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, 2008

Advisors: Prof. Oliver Brock and Prof. Erik G. Learned-Miller

B.Sc., Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2004

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University8/2011{Present

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Conducting independent research in autonomous mobile manipulation

with focus on perception in unstructured environments.

Developing state of the art perception algorithms for detecting, tracking

and modeling novel objects (natural and manmade).

Integrating machine learning methods to enable life-long learning of

robotic perception and manipulation skills.

Collaborating with several research groups.

Research Assistant, The Technical University2009{2011

Berlin, Germany

Designed a new mobile manipulation platform and supervised its construction.

Designed and implemented computer vision algorithms for modeling unknown

articulated objects.

Developed "Interactive Perception", a framework for robotic perception which

closely integrates action and perception.

Led a team of Ph.D. and M.Sc. student in the design of a new software library.

Involved in hiring decisions, project planning and resource allocation.

Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts2005{2009

Amherst, MA, USA

Participated in various research projects on autonomous mobile manipulation.

Research supervisor for undergraduate and M.Sc. students.

Research Assistant, Tel-Aviv University2003{2004

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Led a research project on modeling emotional states in human subjects.

Implemented computer vision methods for facial expression recognition.

Software Engineer, Zend Technologies Ltd. 2000{2004

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Participated in the development of PHP (the leading web scripting language).

HONORS AND AWARDS1. IEEE/RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award 2010-20112.

Outstanding Masters Project (prize funded by Yahoo!)3. Passed PhD qualifying portfolio

with distinction (awarded to 17 candidates between 1995 and 2008)4. "Best Manipulation

Paper" finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

(ICRA) 20085. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2008 -

Travel Grant6. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2008 - Travel Grant7. Distinguished

Undergraduate Research Award, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 2004

PAPERS ARCHIVED IN BOOKS1. Robert Gaschler,

Dov Katz, Martin Grund, Peter A. Frensch and Oliver Brock. Intelligent Object

Exploration. Human Machine Interaction - Getting Closer. ISBN: 978-953-307-890-8, January

2012.

2. Dov Katzand Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive

Perception. In

From Features to ActionsUnifying Perspectives In Computational and Robot Vision, Danica

Kragic,

Ville Kyrki (editors), Springer Verlag, June 2008

REFEREED JOURNALS

REFEREED CONFERENCES

1. Dov Katzand Oliver Brock. Interactive Segmentation of Articulated Objects in 3D.

IEEE/RSJ

REFEREED WORKSHOPS

1. Dov Katz and Oliver Brock. Interactive Segmentation of Articulated Objects in 3D. In

Work-

shop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation at the IEEE

International

Conference on Robotics and Automation 2011, Shanghai, China, May 2011

2. Dov Katz, Jacqueline Kenney and Oliver Brock. How Can Robots Succeed in Unstructured

Envi-

ronments? In Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments at

Robotics:

Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2008

3. Dov Katzand Oliver Brock. Extracting Planar Kinematic Models Using Interactive

Perception.

In Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Sensing and Adapting to the Real World at Robotics:

Science

and Systems, Atlanta, USA, June 2007

4. Dov Katzand Oliver Brock. Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and

Per-

ception. In Workshop: From features to actionsUnifying perspectives in computational and

robot

vision at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy,

April 2007

5. Dov Katz, Emily Horrell, Yuandong Yang, Brendan Burns, Thomas Buckley, Anna Grishkan,

Volodymyr Zhylkovskyy, Oliver Brock, and Erik Learned-Miller. The UMass Mobile

Manipulator

UMan: An Experimental Platform for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation. In Workshop on Ma-

nipulation in Human Environments at Robotics: Science and Systems, Philadelphia, USA,

August

2006

REFEREED POSTERS

1. Dov Katz, Moslem Kazemi, J. Andrew Bagnell and Anthony Stentz. Interactive

Segmentation,

Tracking, and Kinematic Modeling of Unknown Articulated Objects. International Workshop

on

Point Cloud Processing at IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

(CVPR)

2012.

2. Dov Katzand Oliver Brock. Learning to Model Articulated Objects in Unstructured

Environments.

In Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning II at IEEE/RSJ 2008 International

Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France, September 2008

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

B.Sc. and M.Sc. thesis supervision 2009{Present

Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Advising several Bachelor and Master students. My responsibility included the selection

of the them

of each thesis, as well as following the students throughout their research and writing.

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) 2006{2009University of Massachusetts Amherst

Duties included directing the research of a team of undergraduates, and instructing them

in various

computer science related topics

Teaching Assistant (Computer Architecture) 2005{2006University of Massachusetts Amherst

Duties included holding o ce hours, and preparing and grading homework and exams

Tutor 2000{2002

Perach (Israel's national tutorial project)

Weekly tutored and mentored of middle school children from underprivileged families

PRESENTATIONS1. Interactive Perception of Articulated Objects for Autonomous

Manipulation. Ph.D. Defense talk,

Amherst, MA, USA, July 1st, 2011.

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