Speaker
Mac Schwagar
Prof. Schwager is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. He directs the Multi-robot Systems Lab (MSL) where he studies robot autonomy. He is interested in learning-based autonomy for UAVs, manipulators, and robotic vehicles, 3D mapping and SLAM, analytical and statistical tools for verifiable safety in learning-based autonomy, and collaborative intelligence in groups of robots and human-robot teams. He obtained his BS degree from Stanford, his MS and PhD degrees from MIT, and he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2014, the DARPA YFA in 2018, and has received numerous best paper awards including the IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award (2016), Best Paper Award in Robot Manipulation (ICRA 2018), and Best Paper Award in Multi-Robot Systems (ICRA).