Summer 2019:

Abdeslam Boularias receives the NSF CAREER Award, which comes with a grant of $535,896 for the project "RI: CAREER: Task-Oriented Model Identification for Robust Robotic Manipulation".

Spring 2019:

Abdeslam taught the course Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (16:198:440) at Rutgers.

Fall 2018:

Jingjin Yu, Kostas Bekris and Abdeslam Boularias organized the 7th Northeast Robotics Colloquium (NERC) at Rutgers University. The colloquium brings together the roboticists of the northeastern United States and Canada, in an event that is simultaneously a research meeting and a networking event.

Fall 2018:

Jingjin Yu and Abdeslam Boularias receive a grant of $601,360 from GEM China for the project "Intelligent and High-Efficiency Recycling of Non-Ferrous Metals Through Computer Vision Driven Robotics".

Summer 2018:

Abdeslam is co-organizing a Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) in Algiers, Algeria. Check out the lecture on reinforcement learning and an example of Q-learning .

Spring 2018:

Abdeslam taught the course Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (16:198:440) at Rutgers.

Spring 2018:

Jingjin Yu, Kostas Bekris and Abdeslam Boularias receive a grant of $240,000 from JD.com, Inc. for the project "Configurable Hand for Intelligent Material Picking (CHIMP)".

Fall 2017:

Abdeslam is teaching Robot Learning (16:198:674) at Rutgers.

Fall 2017:

We are organizing a new weekly robotics seminars at Rutgers.

Summer 2017:

Kostas Bekris, Abdeslam Boularias and Aaron Dollar (Yale) receive an NSF award of $867,729 for the project "NRI: INT: COLLAB: Integrated Modeling and Learning for Robust Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation with Adaptive Hands".

Summer 2017:

Abdeslam received a grant of $70,000 from General Dynamics under the Collaborative Technology Alliance Program, sponsored by the US Army Research Lab (ARL) .

Spring 2017:

Abdeslam Boularias, Kostas Bekris and Mubbasir Kapadia receive an NSF award of $685,000 for the project "S&AS: FND: Reflective Learning of Stochastic Physical Models for Robust Manipulation".

Summer 2017:

We are organizing a reading group for the summer.

Spring 2017:

Abdeslam is teaching the course Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (16:198:520) at Rutgers.

Fall 2016:

Abdeslam received a grant of $60,000 from General Dynamics under the Collaborative Technology Alliance Program, sponsored by the US Army Research Lab (ARL) .

Fall 2016:

Abdeslam taught the course Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (16:198:440) at Rutgers.

Fall 2016:

Kostas Bekris, Jingjin Yu, and Abdeslam Boularias are organizing weekly robotics seminars at Rutgers.

Spring 2016:

Abdeslam taught the course Robot Learning (16:198:674) at Rutgers.

Fall 2015:

Abdeslam taught the course Introduction To Artificial Intelligence (16:198:520) at Rutgers.

September 2015:

Abdeslam joined the computer science department of Rutgers University as an assistant professor.

July 2015:

Abdeslam left his position at Carnegie Mellon University.  

June 2013:

Abdeslam organized with Francesco Dinuzzo and Lennart Ljung a workshop at ICML on Machine Learning for System Identification.

May 2013:

Abdeslam joined the robotics institute of Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral researcher.

May 2013:

Abdeslam left his position at the Max-Planck Institute after three wonderful years in Tuebingen.

Fall 2012:

Abdeslam taught with Jan Peters a course on autonomous intelligent systems (Autonome Lernsysteme) at TU Darmstadt.

Summer 2012:

Abdeslam taught with Jan Peters a course on robot learning at TU Darmstadt.

July 2011:

Abdeslam co-organized a workshop at ICML on the New Developments in Imitation Learning.