Invited Speaker

Speaker Bio: Alex Barbosa is a Sr. Research Scientist at Amazon Robotics with over 15 years of industry experience. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2020, where he collaborated with the Department of Crop Sciences on large-scale optimization of crop management. He is mainly interested in the intersection between signal processing, controls and machine learning, with a focus on problems with a large actuation space.

Speaker Bio: Amanda Prorok is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Prior to joining Cambridge, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland. Prof Prorok is an IEEE Senior Member and has been honored by numerous research awards, including an ERC Starting Grant, an Amazon Research Award, the EPSRC New Investigator Award, the Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Award, and several Best Paper awards. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) prize for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science. She serves as Associate Editor for Autonomous Robots (AURO) and was the Chair of the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems.