Narayan Srinivasa, Creating Machines That Can Perceive

Dr. Narayan Srinivasa, is the Principal Research Scientist and Manager at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu. Srinivasa’s primary research interests are in the areas of learning, perception, adaptive control and evolutionary dynamics.  He is currently the program manager for two DARPA projects, SyNAPSE and Physical Intelligence, which attempt to develop a theoretical foundation inspired by brain science and physics to engineer electronic systems that exhibit intelligence.

In his 12 years at HRL he has designed and managed several projects for GM and Boeing solving real-world problems in the areas of sensing and control, winning numerous awards including the HRL Distinguished Inventor Award, GM Most Valuable Colleague Award and HRL Outstanding Team Award. He was a Beckman Fellow at the prestigious Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, where he was a member of Human Computer Intelligent Interaction group and worked in the areas of learning algorithms for robotics, manufacturing and computer vision. He has published 80 technical papers and holds 25 US patents.

In the video below, Srinivasa shares his research on creating perceptive machines and artificial intelligence.




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