<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><b>When:    </b>Tuesday, October 8th<b> at </b></span><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">11AM CT</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Where:   </b>Talk will be given<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font></span>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                    TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                    5th Floor, Room 530<b>  </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually: </b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">via Panopto (</span><a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7d948c59-52fa-4ec1-8177-b1fc00ebaf55" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><b>Who:      </b></span><span class="gmail-il">Ruoshi</span> Liu, Columbia University</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Title:</b>       Towards Intelligent Robots Beyond Human Capability<br style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><br style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Abstract: </b>Humans are much smarter than robots today, with the ability to adapt quickly to a new environment and learn a new skill from a few examples, among other amazing things. However, human intelligence also comes with many limitations. Human perception is limited by the physical constraints of our sensors. Human’s prior knowledge is limited by the amount of data we are exposed to in our lifetime. Humans are limited by our physical capabilities, such as muscle strength and reaction time. In this talk, we will explore key directions where intelligent systems can achieve superhuman performance and reflect on the lessons learned from these pursuits.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Bio:  </b><span class="gmail-il">Ruoshi</span> Liu is a PhD student at Columbia University, advised by Carl Vondrick and working closely with Shuran Song and Shree Nayar. His research lies at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and computer graphics. He has published papers at top conferences, including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CoRL, NeurIPS, ICLR, etc. His research received new coverage from New Scientists, Hacker News (#1 trending), etc.. Technology derived from his original work has led to multiple startups in the field of 3D generation, and the open-source models and datasets he developed have been downloaded and used more than a million times by other researchers and engineers in the field.</font></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b><font color="#000000">Host: <a href="mailto:bhattad@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Anand Bhattad</a></font></b></div></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div>