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GRIE People's Choice Award (April 5, 2022)

Josh Bloom is the recipient of the People's Choice Award at WPI's Graduate Student Innovation Exchange (GRIE). He presented the talk What's Your Intention? Deep Intention Reinforcement Learning for Physically Constrained Multi-Agent Cooperation.

AAMAS Travel Scholarship (March 23, 2022)

Ashay Aswale was the recipient of a travel scholarship to attend AAMAS2022.

AAMAS Best Paper Award (February 3, 2022)

Ashay Aswale, Antonio Lopez, Aukkawut Ammartayakun, and Carlo Pinciroli are the recipient of the Best Paper Award at AAMAS2022. The paper title is Hacking the Colony: On the Disruptive Effect of Misleading Pheromone and How to Defend Against It.

Ashay Successfully Defended His Qualifier Exam (February 1, 2022)

Ashay Aswale successfully defended his Qualifier exam. Congratulations Ashay!

Josh Successfully Defended His Qualifier Exam (December 7, 2021)

Josh Bloom successfully defended his Qualifier exam. Congratulations Josh!

Jayam Successfully Defended His PhD (February 1, 2021)

Jayam Patel successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Patel!

Nathalie Successfully Defended Her PhD (January 22, 2021)

Nathalie Majcherczyk successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Majcherczyk!

WPI Team Capricorn qualifies for NASA Space Robotics Challenge (January 15, 2021)

WPI’s Team Capricorn passes the qualification round in the NASA Space Robotics Challenge, advancing to the final competition round with 21 other teams out of 114 registered teams.

Dr. Glenn Yee Graduate Student Tuition Award (August 5, 2020)

Nathalie Majchercyzk was the recipient of a Dr. Glenn Yee Graduate Student Tuition Award.

Amazon Research Award (June 17, 2020)

Carlo Pinciroli was the recipient of an Amazon Research Award for the project An Immersive Interface for Multi-User Supervision of Multi-Robot Operations.

NSF Grant (March 23, 2020)

Profs. Jing Xiao, Marko Popovic, Jie Fu, and Carlo Pinciroli are lead and co-PIs on a new NSF award "Phase II I/UCRC WPI: Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well-Being".

Internship (March 16, 2020)

Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining Amazon Rootics for an internship.

Amazon Robotics Grant (August 1, 2019)

NEST Lab received a grant from Amazon Robotics for a project on federated learning for robot swarms.

Internship (Jul 08, 2019)

Arsalan Akhter will be joining Vecna Robotics for a summer internship.

Internship (Jun 24, 2019)

Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining GoogleX for a summer internship.

Internship (Jun 4, 2019)

Albert Enyedy will be joining Sikorsky (a Lockheed Martin Company) for a summer internship.

Internship (Jun 4, 2019)

Josh Bloom will be joining MIT Lincoln Laboratory for a summer internship.

Internship (May 13, 2019)

Tyagaraja Ramaswamy will be joining iRobot for a summer internship.

Award (Aug 30, 2018)

Nathalie Majcherczyk received a IROS Student and Developing Countries (SDC) Travel Award to attend IROS 2018 in Madrid and present her paper.

MathWorks Gift (August 1, 2018)

NEST Lab received a gift from MathWorks for a project on multi-robot visual programming in Simulink.

mRobot Grant (August 1, 2018)

NEST Lab received a grant from mRobot Technologies, Shangai for a project on navigation and coordination of multiple robots.

Internship (May 7, 2018)

Nathalie Majcherczyk will be joining Amazon Robotics for a summer internship.

Award (Apr 16, 2018)

Nathalie Majcherczyk received an Inclusion@RSS travel grant to attend RSS 2018 in Pittsburgh and present a poster about her work.

Award (Mar 27, 2018)

Nathalie Majcherczyk received an WPI Graduate Student travel grant to attend IROS 2018 in Madrid and present her paper.

Media Coverage (Aug 14, 2017)

Worcester Channel 3 coverage of research at NEST Lab.

Media Coverage (Aug 8, 2017)

Article of WPI Today about research at NEST Lab.

Tutorial (May 29, 2017)

Tutorial about Buzz at ICRA2017.

Award (Apr 5, 2017)

WPI undergrad Brandon M. Sanders awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Brandon will use this scholarship to join NEST Lab over the summer.

Award (Mar 7, 2017)

Nathalie Majcherczyk awarded the first WPI PhD Global Research Scholarship. Nathalie will use this scholarship to visit MIST Lab in Montreal over the summer.

Award (Feb 24, 2017)

WPI undergrad Sierra T. Palmer nominated Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholar. Sierra will use this scholarship to join NEST Lab over the summer.

Demo (Oct 29-30, 2016)

Buzz demo at NERC2016.

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