February 2021 - Ai - Engineering Mailing Lists

[CoRIS-List] Seminar *Today* 10am: Joseph Foley, Axiomatic Design for Robotics
by Ross Hatton 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Hi All, As a reminder, our seminar today will be "Axiomatic Design for Robotics", by Dr. Joseph T. Foley of Reykjavik University. Seminar time: 10am PST, Friday February 26 Seminar zoom link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ… <https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ…> Seminar slides: https://www.overleaf.com/read/xhtggvxwyymf <https://www.overleaf.com/read/xhtggvxwyymf> -Ross --------------------- Abstract: Dr. Joseph T. Foley has been thinking about design and how it can be incorporated into the multidisciplinary study of robotics and mechatronics. The field is inherently challenging for students to gain mastery of due to the need for competence in the disciplines of software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. In this presentation, he will give a quick tutorial on Axiomatic Design, explain some of the research he is performing with it, and showcase past student projects. Biography: Dr. Joseph Timothy Foley (MIT BSc ‘99, MEng, ‘99, PhD ‘07) has worked as a researcher and designer in a large variety of fields with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure and mechatronics. His graduate research at MIT focused on integrating RFID into smart devices in a scalable and secure way, and he holds patents on the Object Name System for linking RFID-tagged objects to the responsible party. After completing his PhD, Dr. Foley worked as a researcher in the Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group at MIT in partnership with SKF, investigating methods of reducing the impact and energy usage of manufacturing processes. At iRobot's Government and Industrial division, he developed shape-changing robots as the technical lead for the Harvard-MIT-iRobot DARPA ChemBots team; this research resulted in a US patent on the manufacture of enhanced Shape Memory Alloy springs for soft robotics. Dr. Foley is now an assistant professor at Reykjavik University and teaches topics in mechatronics and mechanical design. He has integrated Axiomatic Design into the courses he currently teaches to provide students with a common framework for the heavily multi-disciplinary nature of modern computer-controlled manufacturing and smart devices. His research interests include product design, embedded smart devices and IoT, wireless communication, physical security, and engineering-artist collaborations. Dr. Foley's work-related hobbies include developing interactive installations for Icelandic art museums. His most recent developments in Axiomatic Design research include Creative Axiomatic Design (CIRP DC 2016), Desirable Complexity (ICAD 2017), and Axiomatic Design as an Ontology (CIRP DC 2017). He is the co-editor for "Design Engineering and Science", a Springer Nature educational textbook which intends to make Axiomatic Design accessible to a large range of fields and teaching styles. Dr. Foley's web site: https://afs.cs.ru.is/user/f/foley/www/ <https://afs.cs.ru.is/user/f/foley/www/> =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute (CoRIS) Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu <http://coris.oregonstate.edu/> research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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OSU AI Seminar - March 3 2021 | Liang Huang, Oregon State University
by Patravali, Jay Sanjay 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear All, Our next speaker is Prof. Liang Huang from Oregon State University. He will be presenting *"*COVID-19 Vaccine Design using Mathematical Linguistics*"* on *Wednesday 3/3 from 1.00-2.00PM PT.* Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/arhbuvs3 Please find attached the poster flyer for more information. *Title*: COVID-19 Vaccine Design using Mathematical Linguistics *Abstract*: To defeat the current COVID-19 pandemic, a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine has emerged as a promising approach thanks to its rapid and scalable production and non-infectious and non-integrating properties. However, designing an mRNA sequence to achieve high stability and protein yield remains a challenging problem due to the exponentially large search space (e.g., there are 2.4 x 10^632 possible mRNA sequence candidates for the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2). We describe two on-going efforts for this problem, both using linear-time algorithms inspired by my earlier work in natural language parsing. On one hand, the Eterna OpenVaccine project from Stanford Medical School takes a crowd-sourcing approach to let game players all over the world design stable sequences. To evaluate sequence stability (in terms of free energy), they use LinearFold from my group (2019) since it’s the only linear-time RNA folding algorithm available (which makes it the only one fast enough for COVID-scale genomes). On the other hand, we take a computational approach to directly search for the optimal sequence in this exponentially large space via dynamic programming. It turns out this problem can be reduced to a classical problem in formal language theory and computational linguistics (intersection between CFG and DFA), which can be solved in O(n^3) time, just like lattice parsing for speech. In the end, we can design the optimal mRNA vaccine candidate for SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in just about 10 minutes. To conclude, classical results (dating back to the 1960s) from theoretical computer science and mathematical linguistics helped us solve the very challenging and extremely important problem in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. *Bio*: Liang Huang (PhD, Penn, 2008) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University and a Distinguished Scientist at Baidu Research USA. He is a leading theoretical computational linguist, and was recognized at ACL 2008 (Best Paper Award) and ACL 2019 (Keynote Speech), but in recent years he has been more interested in applying his expertise in parsing, translation, and grammar formalisms to biology problems such as RNA folding and RNA design. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, he has shifted his attention to the fight against the virus, which resulted in efficient algorithms for stable mRNA vaccine design, adapted from classical theory and algorithms from mathematical linguistics dating back to the 1960s. Please plan on attending! Thanks, Jay Patravali Graduate Student, CoRIS-EECS. Oregon State University ---- AI Seminar Important Reminders: -> The AI Seminar has a strict "no electronics" and "no recordings" policy. -> For graduate students in the AI program, attendance is strongly encouraged.

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[CoRIS-List] Seminar Feb 26: Joseph Foley, Axiomatic Design for Robotics
by Ross Hatton 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi All, As a reminder, our seminar this week will be "Axiomatic Design for Robotics", by Dr. Joseph T. Foley of Reykjavik University. Seminar time: 10am PST, Friday February 26 Seminar zoom link: https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ… <https://oregonstate.zoom.us/j/97644079157?pwd=WXRZeEhOR0padXVzb2NkVkVkVEFmZ…> -Ross --------------------- Abstract: Dr. Joseph T. Foley has been thinking about design and how it can be incorporated into the multidisciplinary study of robotics and mechatronics. The field is inherently challenging for students to gain mastery of due to the need for competence in the disciplines of software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. In this presentation, he will give a quick tutorial on Axiomatic Design, explain some of the research he is performing with it, and showcase past student projects. Biography: Dr. Joseph Timothy Foley (MIT BSc ‘99, MEng, ‘99, PhD ‘07) has worked as a researcher and designer in a large variety of fields with a heavy emphasis on infrastructure and mechatronics. His graduate research at MIT focused on integrating RFID into smart devices in a scalable and secure way, and he holds patents on the Object Name System for linking RFID-tagged objects to the responsible party. After completing his PhD, Dr. Foley worked as a researcher in the Environmentally Benign Manufacturing group at MIT in partnership with SKF, investigating methods of reducing the impact and energy usage of manufacturing processes. At iRobot's Government and Industrial division, he developed shape-changing robots as the technical lead for the Harvard-MIT-iRobot DARPA ChemBots team; this research resulted in a US patent on the manufacture of enhanced Shape Memory Alloy springs for soft robotics. Dr. Foley is now an assistant professor at Reykjavik University and teaches topics in mechatronics and mechanical design. He has integrated Axiomatic Design into the courses he currently teaches to provide students with a common framework for the heavily multi-disciplinary nature of modern computer-controlled manufacturing and smart devices. His research interests include product design, embedded smart devices and IoT, wireless communication, physical security, and engineering-artist collaborations. Dr. Foley's work-related hobbies include developing interactive installations for Icelandic art museums. His most recent developments in Axiomatic Design research include Creative Axiomatic Design (CIRP DC 2016), Desirable Complexity (ICAD 2017), and Axiomatic Design as an Ontology (CIRP DC 2017). He is the co-editor for "Design Engineering and Science", a Springer Nature educational textbook which intends to make Axiomatic Design accessible to a large range of fields and teaching styles. Dr. Foley's web site: https://afs.cs.ru.is/user/f/foley/www/ =========== Ross L. Hatton Associate Professor, Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute (CoRIS) Oregon State University coris.oregonstate.edu research.engr.oregonstate.edu/lram/ rosslhatton.com ross.hatton(a)oregonstate.edu

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