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Overview

Illah Nourbakhsh is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science and Computer Science, with a notable focus on interdisciplinary applications.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics and venues:

  • "Empowering local communities using artificial intelligence," 2022, Patterns
  • "Smell Pittsburgh," 2020, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • "Project RISE: Recognizing Industrial Smoke Emissions," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "Teaching Ethics by Teaching Ethics Pedagogy," 2022, Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
  • "Leveraging tangible interfaces in primary school math: Pilot testing of the Owlet math program," 2020, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nourbakhsh include:

  • Yen-Chia Hsu
  • Ting-Hao Huang
  • Paul Dille
  • Randy Sargent
  • Jennifer Cross

Their work has been published in various venues with multiple publications in:

  • Communications of the ACM
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Patterns
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Nourbakhsh's research addresses several subfields, including:

  • Ecological Modeling
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Information Systems and Management

Main topics explored in their studies consist of:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Fire Detection and Safety Systems
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management

Best Publications

  • Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots

    Roland Siegwart;Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Davide Scaramuzza

  • A survey of socially interactive robots

    Terrence Fong;Terrence Fong;Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Kerstin Dautenhahn

  • Appearance-based place recognition for topological localization

    I. Ulrich;I. Nourbakhsh

  • Methods and algorithms for statistical analysis of protein sequences.

    V Brendel;P Bucher;I R Nourbakhsh;B E Blaisdell

  • Appearance-Based Obstacle Detection with Monocular Color Vision

    Iwan Ulrich;Illah R. Nourbakhsh

  • DERVISH An Office-Navigating Robot

    Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Rob Powers;Stan Birchfield

  • The role of expressiveness and attention in human-robot interaction

    A. Bruce;I. Nourbakhsh;R. Simmons

  • Human-robot teaming for search and rescue

    I.R. Nourbakhsh;K. Sycara;M. Koes;M. Yong

  • Generating categorical depth maps using passive defocus sensing

    Illah Reza Nourbakhsh;David Andre

  • An effective mobile robot educator with a full-time job

    Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Alvaro Soto;Judith Bobenage;Sebastien Grange

  • On the future of transportation in an era of automated and autonomous vehicles

    P. A. Hancock;Illah Nourbakhsh;Jack Stewart

  • The smart wheelchair component system.

    Richard Simpson;Edmund Lopresti;Steve Hayashi;Illah Nourbakhsh

  • Method and apparatus for long-range planning

    Illah Nourbakhsh;Tyler Morse;David Andre;Ofer Matan

  • Hybrid simultaneous localization and map building: a natural integration of topological and metric

    Nicola Tomatis;Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Roland Siegwart

  • The mobot museum robot installations: a five year experiment

    I.R. Nourbakhsh;C. Kunz;T. Willeke

  • A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision

    J. Campbell;R. Sukthankar;I. Nourbakhsh;A. Pahwa

  • The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

    Illah R. Nourbakhsh;Kevin Crowley;Ajinkya Bhave;Emily Hamner

  • CMUcam3: An Open Programmable Embedded Vision Sensor

    Anthony G. Rowe;Adam Goode;Dhiraj Goel;Illah Nourbakhsh

  • A low cost embedded color vision system

    A. Rowe;C. Rosenberg;I. Nourbakhsh

  • The Neighborhood Networks project: a case study of critical engagement and creative expression through participatory design

    Carl DiSalvo;Illah Nourbakhsh;David Holstius;Ayça Akin

Frequent Co-Authors

David Andre
David Andre X, the moonshot factory
Reid Simmons
Reid Simmons Carnegie Mellon University
Terrence Fong
Terrence Fong Ames Research Center
Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University
Michael R. Genesereth
Michael R. Genesereth Stanford University
Anthony Rowe
Anthony Rowe Carnegie Mellon University
Davide Scaramuzza
Davide Scaramuzza University of Zurich
David Wettergreen
David Wettergreen Carnegie Mellon University
Rahul Sukthankar
Rahul Sukthankar Google (United States)

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