Prof. Mac Schwager

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).

Prof. Ian Stavness

Prof. Stavness is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He holds a Research Chair at the Global Institute for Food Security and is the Director of the CREATE in Computational Agriculture training program. He obtained his PhD from the University of British Columbia and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bio-Engineering at Stanford University prior to joining the University of Saskatchewan in 2012. His research focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and computer graphics with applications in biology, agriculture, and medicine.