Maram Sakr

Joint Ph.D. Student at The University of British Columbia and Monash University | Working to transfer expert's skills to both robots and novices

[Robotics: Science and Systems @RoboticsSciSys]

[Call for papers] 📃📝

We invite submissions to the 20th edition of the “Robotics: Science and Systems” (RSS) conference #rss2024, to be held at the Technical University of Delft @tudelft in Delft, Netherlands, from July 15 - 19, 2024. 🤖

[Amin Karbasi @aminkarbasi]

As the tradition goes, here is the list of 22 papers I read, learned from, and wished I had been a co-author (in no particular order):

[Michael Black @Michael_J_Black]

Failure is the dance partner of success. It can feel insurmountable at times. Here is my story of academic failures -- my anti-CV if you will. I hope people find it useful. https://t.co/ZJfG8VKCY0

[Elizabeth Croft @ecroft]

News! Effective July 1, 2022 I will be joining @UVic in Victoria, Canada as the next VP Academic and Provost. It's an exciting opportunity and I'm looking forward to reconnecting with family and friends in BC, but will miss @MonashUni and the wonderful team @MonashEngineers.

[Maram Sakr @MaramGSakr]

Happy to announce that our paper "Objective learning from human demonstrations" is now available online at this link: https://t.co/vuR32B7opt
I was fortunate to collaborate with my colleagues Jonathan Lin, @PamelaCarreno11, @MahsaParsapour under the supervision of @ProfKulic.

[Sergey Levine @svlevine]

I'm releasing all the lectures (so far) for my deep learning class, CS182! This is an introductory deep learning course (advanced undergraduate + graduate) covering a broad range of deep learning topics.

Website: https://t.co/0PaBOJElo9
Playlist: https://t.co/21GvfFRcHo

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[Ken Goldberg @Ken_Goldberg]

Theory and simulation are excellent but there’s a certain thrill to performing physical experiments.

[HRI Pioneers @HRIPioneers]

Meet #HRIPioneer2021 @MaramGSakr, working on “What Makes a Good Demonstration for Robot Learning Generalization?”!

Don’t forget to checkout #PioneeringRoboticsResearch at @HRI_2021 expo booth!
Here’s a glimpse:

[HRI Pioneers @HRIPioneers]

🤖Introducing #HRIPioneer2021‼️

@armirreza_yz @hazevedosa @RJSavery @nathantsoi @preetiramaraj @MaramGSakr @taylor_k_f Alyssa Kubota, Mai Lee Chang, Ruchen Wen @ClaureHouston Ali Ayub, Shahed Saleh, @emmavanzoelen @RachaelBBurns @IsabelN64624097 @MafaldaGamboa @sarahmgillet

[🍉 Abubakar Abid @abidlabs]

I’m excited to announce the start of the Fatima Fellowship program this March!

If you’re a student anywhere in the world interested in academia and looking to be mentored by amazing researchers on a project to strengthen your PhD application, sign up: https://t.co/09QUfcSmKQ

[Robotic Vision Summer School (RVSS) @RoboticVisionSS]

Everyone needs positive reinforcements, especially our robots! Starting off day 4 of #RVSS2021 with @PamelaCarreno11 's session on Reinforcement learning.

[Maram Sakr @MaramGSakr]

Awesome explanation of CNN with Prof. Ian Reid at #RVSS2021 #FruitFinders

[Fernando J. Galetto @galetto_j]

I really enjoyed Gamini Dissanayake presentation at #RVSS2021. A great overview about SLAM. #FruitFinders

[Maram Sakr @MaramGSakr]

Impact, collaborate, create and power are the values representing the culture of Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. #RVSS2021 #FruitFinders

[Maram Sakr @MaramGSakr]

Creating robots that see at #RVSS2021

[Maram Sakr @MaramGSakr]

Kicking off #RVSS2021 with team #FruitFinders

[Thanh Long Vu @ThanhLongVu7]

#RVSS2021 #FruitFinders
Impact, collaborate, create and power are the values representing the culture of Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.

[Ken Goldberg @Ken_Goldberg]

I listen regularly to This Week in Machine Learning (TWIML), an insightful podcast series hosted by @samcharrington and @twimlai. They are hosting an online conference 19-29 January : TWIMLcon to focus on tools for scaling ML & AI. https://t.co/4N3UyzV36l

[Angela Schoellig (hiring PhDs/postdocs/engineers) @angelaschoellig]

Have you seen our report on how robots can support us during a pandemic? A comprehensive summary of the success factors for COVID robot deployments put together by the amazing @UofTRobotics team!

[Stefanie Tellex @StefanieTellex]

I wrote a guide to writing research statements for Ph.D. programs and fellowships. Good luck to everyone who is applying this cycle! https://t.co/MzT9ZyoUiA