Grad School Search 2008

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Carnegie Mellon

Caltech

Dr. Richard Murray (CDS)
- Really nice guy

Dr. Issa Nesnas, JPL Group Supervisor, Robotic Software Systems group
- http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Issa_Nesnas/
Dr. Joel Burdick
- http://robotics.caltech.edu/
- AXEL - a big axel with wheels, w/ JPL
- http://robotics.caltech.edu/~pablo/axel/home.html
- mars rover, going down into craters, collect dirt samples

Dr. Murray, Dr. Burdick
- ALICE - DARPA grand challenge 2005, 2007
- http://team.caltech.edu/

Dr. Pietro Perona (EE/CNS)
- http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Perona.html
- Computational vision, machine vision
- Using vision to *understand* human motion, dynamics (what is walking, running, etc)
- Not just statistical definition, an understanding

Dr. Michael Dickinson
- http://www.dickinson.caltech.edu/
- Insect flight, dynamics of flight, control

Dr. Chandy
- http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cspeople/faculty/chandy_m.html
- A bunch of roombas
- Radiation sensors

Applications

Giant Table

Rank	School	Dept	Fee	Inst/Dept	App	Username	Deadline	Recs
#1	MIT	EECS	$75	none	App	cdellin2009:{mit}	Dec 15	"end of december"
	MIT	ME/MSOceanEng	$75	3514/1502	App	cmdellin:{mit}	Dec 15
#2	Stanford	ScEng/CS (SAIL, Oussama Khatib)	$105	4704/none	App and CS	WN85SB627:{applyyourself}	Dec 9
#3	Berkeley	EECS	$70	4833/1203 (EE) or 4833/0402 (CS)	App	cdellin:{berkeley}	Dec 15	Jan 9
	Berkeley	ME	$60	4833/1501 or 4833/1502	(same)	(same)	Dec 5	Jan 5
#5	Illinois	ECE	$60	1836/1203	App	WN85SB627:{applyyourself}	Dec 15
#6	Caltech	CDS	$80	4034/none	App	cdellin:{embark}	Jan 1
#7	CMU	RoboticsInstitute	$75	2074/0402	App	cdellin@gmail.com:{cmu}	Dec 15	Dec 20
#22	Harvard	Arts&Sciences	$90	3451/none	App	cdellin:{embark}	Dec 15 (preferred)
#39	Yale	Arts&Sciences	$90	3987/??	App	WN85SB627:{applyyourself}	Jan 2
#52	Rutgers	GSNB	$65	2790/none	App	cdellin:dellin (??)	Jan 5
Nope
#2	Stanford	ScEng/EE	$105				Dec 16
#9	UMich						Jan 5
#27	Johns Hopkins						Dec 12 (CS), Jan 15 (ECE)
#52	Brown						Dec 15 (CS), Jan 1 (Eng)

Note: Rankings taken from US News & World Report Best Graduate Engineering Schools, 2008

See: Grad School Search 2008/Essays

App Info

See: Grad School Search 2008/Essays

Recommenders:

Gill Pratt, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, gill.pratt@olin.edu, 781-292-2557
Brian Bingham, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, brian.bingham@olin.edu, 781-292-2541
William Townsend, PhD, President & CEO, Barrett Technology, Inc. wt@barrett.com, 617-252-9000

Detailed Info

MIT/EECS
- Transcript Address (1x):

EECS Graduate Office

Room 38-444

MIT - 77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

MIT/ME
- Transcript Address (1x?):

M.E. Graduate Office

MIT, Room 1-112

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139

Stanford/SAIL
- Transcript Address (2x):

Computer Science Graduate Admissions

Gates Building, Room 196

353 Serra Mall, Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-9015

Berkeley/EECS
- Transcripts Address (1x):

EECS Graduate Admissions

205 Cory Hall, MC #1770

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-1770

Berkeley/ME
- Transcripts Address (1x):

University of California at Berkeley

Department of Mechanical Engineering

6189 Etcheverry Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-1742

Illinois/ECE
- Transcript Address (1x):

University of Illinois ECE department

Counseling Office

156 Everitt Lab

1406 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

Carnegie/RobInst
- Transcript Address (1x):

Martha Clarke, Admissions Coordinator

School of Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

Harvard/SEAS
- Transcript Address (1x):

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Harvard University

Office of Admissions

P.O. Box 9129

Cambridge, MA 02238-9129

Yale
- Transcript Address (1x):

Office of Graduate Admissions

Yale University

PO Box 208323

New Haven, CT 06520

Rutgers
- Transcript Address:

Graduate Admissions - New Brunswick

18 Bishop Place

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

732-932-7711

Fax 732-932-8231

Programs

Berk-Berk
- http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
- http://bleex.me.berkeley.edu/index.htm

MIT (see list of labs below) - #1
- Russ Tedrake, mtg next week ...
- http://www-clmc.usc.edu/~jrpeters/tcrl/pmwiki.php/TC/IROS2008
- Cool conference hosted by Tedrake, at MIT, w/ Jan Peters!
- Deadline: December 15
- kaijen hsiao@MIT.EDU (via barrett)

Yale - #39

Brown Robotics - #52
- Chad Jenkins (met at AAAI 2008 in Chicago)
- http://robotics.cs.brown.edu/
- Dad email 2008-05-31 on his award from WH (PECASE award)
- Deadline: December 15 (CS w/ Chad), January 1 (Engineering)

Johns Hopkins ECE Department - #27
- http://www.ece.jhu.edu/
- “Some of the areas that faculty are currently researching include ... nonlinear systems, ... hitectures for machine vision, nonlinear systems, photonics, optical communications, biomorphic systems for robotics and sensory information processing” (Email 2008-05-30)
- Admissions deadline for fall 2009 applicants: January 15, 2009
- http://haptics.lcsr.jhu.edu/Main_Page (Haptics Lab) part of http://lcsr.jhu.edu/Main_Page
- Deadline: December 12 (CS), January 15 (ECE)

Harvard Something-or-other
- http://biorobotics.harvard.edu/
- I met this Rob Howe guy last week (Aug 13ish)
- Apparently has some contact w/ Leif
- Deadline: December 15 (preferred)

Illinois - #5
- Remember Olin association
- http://courses.uiuc.edu/cis/programs/urbana/2008/fall/graduate/ece.html
- http://www.ece.illinois.edu/current/grad/overview/compe.html (scroll to "Computer Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence")

UMich - #9

Northeastern University
- http://www.robots.neu.edu/ - Old "Robotics and Mechatronics Lab" page, in the "Department of Mechanican & Industrial Engineering"