Tomas Lozano-Perez, MIT CSAIL

Doctoral Theses Supervised

  1. Mason, Matthew T. (co-supervised with B.K.P. Horn.) Manipulator Grasping and Pushing Operations, May 1982.
  2. Buckley, Steve Planning and Teaching Compliant Motion Strategies, January 1987.
  3. Canny, John F. The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning, May 1987.
  4. Donald, Bruce R. A Theory of Error Detection and Recovery: Robot Motion Planning with Uncertainty in the Geometry of the Environment, June 1987.
  5. Weld, Daniel Qualitative Analysis with Multiple, Overlapping Models, May 1988.
  6. Erdmann, Michael A. On Probabilistic Strategies for Robot Tasks, September 1989.
  7. Siegel, David Strategies for finding the pose of an object grasped by a hand, May 1991.
  8. Cass, Todd (co-supervised with E. Grimson), Polynomial-Time Geometric Matching for Object Recognition, September 1992.
  9. Caine, Michael (ME Dept.), The design of shape from motion constraints, February 1993.
  10. Pollard, Nancy Synthesizing Whole-Hand Grasps Using Generalized Prototypes, January 1994.
  11. Narasimhan, Sundar Task-Level Strategies for Robot, June 1994.
  12. Moore-Bryant, Barbara (co-supervised with P. Winston) Sequence Requirements of Packed Beta Sheet Proteins, September 1994.
  13. Viola, Paul (co-supervised with C. Atkeson) Alignment by Maximization of Mutual Information, May 1995.
  14. Robles, Jose L. Contact Interpretation and Randomized Strategies for Robotic Assembly, May 1996.
  15. Maron, Oded Learning from Ambiguity, May 1998.
  16. Mellor, J. P. (co-supervised with S. Teller) Reconstructing Built Geometry from Large Sets of Calibrated Images, October 1999.
  17. Wang, Cheuk-san Edward Determinig Molecular Conformation from Distance or Density Data, December 1999.
  18. Tony Eng, De-Novo Peptide Sequencing from MALDI-TOF Ppst-Source-Decay Spectra, January 2001.
  19. Tucker-Kellogg, Lisa Systematic Conformational Search with Constraint Satisfaction, May 2002.
  20. Chiu, Han-Pang (co-supervised with L. Kaelbling) Transfer Learning for Multi-View Object Class Recognition, January 2008.
  21. Hong, Eunjong Rotamer Optimization for Protein Design through MAP Estimation and Problem-Size Reduction, June 2008
  22. Finney, Sarah (co-supervised with L. Kaelbling) On learning task-directed motion plans, February 2009.
  23. Hsiao, Kaijen (co-supervised with L. Kaelbling) Relatively Robust Grasping, September 2009.
  24. Meg Aycinena (co-supervised with L. Kaelbling) Weighted Geometric Grammars for Object Detection in Context, June 2010.
  25. Selim Temizer (co-supervised with L. Kaelbling) Planning under Uncertainty for Dynamic Collision Avoidance, January 2011.