short bio

photo of me Joel A. Hesch is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research advisor is Professor Stergios I. Roumeliotis, who directs the Multiple Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) Laboratory, which he has been a member of since 2005. His research interests include localization and navigation of autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion, indoor human tracking and guidance, and human robot interaction. In his interdisciplinary research endeavors, he is co-advised by Professor Gordon E. Legge who heads the Minnesota Laboratory for Low-Vision Research.


J. A. Hesch is the recipient of the NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences Training Fellowship (2007 - 09) in Computational Neuroscience. He has also been awarded the CSE Excellence in Research Award Fellowship (2007) for paper [C2].


contact info
Mailing Address:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
4-192 EE/CS Building
200 Union Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
[gmap] [umap]
Office: +1.612.625.2217
Fax: +1.612.625.0572
Email: joel@umn.edu
Web: www.umn.edu/~joel

Office Address:
Walter Library (DTC), room B30
[gmap] [umap]

news
  • Oct. 11-15, 2009: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
    Paper: A 3D Pose Estimator for the Visually Impaired [details] [IROS]
  • Aug. 3-7, 2009: NASA Planetary Sciences Summer School (PSSS)
    Intensive one week robotic space mission design course at the Jet Propulsion Lab [NASA] [UMN/CS]
  • Jun. 11, 2009: Safety Security Rescue Research Center (SSR-RC) Spring Symposium
    Talk: A Navigation and Mapping Aid for First Responders in Unknown Environments with Low-Visibility Conditions [SSR-RC]
Modified Fri October 30th 2009, 12:31pm CDT [ xhtml | css ]

The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.