2026 Odest Chadwicke Jenkins: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	38	8072	7783	2233	2072	180	5647

Research.com Recognitions

2021 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the field of human-robot interaction and extensive service in broadening participation in artificial intelligence.
2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2017 - ACM Senior Member
2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with a particular focus on robotics and artificial intelligence.

The primary fields of study for Jenkins include Computer Science and Engineering. Their work extends deeply into subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

The main research topics covered by Jenkins involve:

Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Robot Manipulation and Learning
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Advanced Vision and Imaging
Human Pose and Action Recognition
AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Jenkins has published extensively, contributing to a variety of venues. Frequent venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Some recent publications by Jenkins are:

"VLMbench: A Compositional Benchmark for Vision-and-Language Manipulation," 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
"LIT: Light-field Inference of Transparency for Refractive Object Localization," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"ProgressLabeller: Visual Data Stream Annotation for Training Object-Centric 3D Perception," 2022, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
"GeoFusion: Geometric Consistency Informed Scene Estimation in Dense Clutter," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
"Probabilistic Inference in Planning for Partially Observable Long Horizon Problems," 2021, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Jenkins has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Anthony W. Opipari
Jana Pavlasek
Zhen Zeng
Alphonsus Adu-Bredu
Nikhil Devraj

Awards and honors Jenkins has received include:

Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021, for significant contributions to human-robot interaction and service in broadening participation in artificial intelligence
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019
ACM Senior Member, 2017
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2009

Best Publications

Automated Derivation of Primitives for Movement Classification

Ajo Fod;Maja J. Matarić;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

536
Citations
A spatio-temporal extension to Isomap nonlinear dimension reduction

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Maja J. Matarić

283
Citations
Rosbridge: ROS for non-ROS users

Christopher Crick;Graylin Jay;Sarah Osentoski;Benjamin Pitzer

262
Citations
Deriving action and behavior primitives from human motion data

O.C. Jenkins;M.J. Mataric

240
Citations
The oz of wizard: simulating the human for interaction research

Aaron Steinfeld;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Brian Scassellati

225
Citations
Estimation of human core temperature from sequential heart rate observations.

Mark J Buller;Mark J Buller;William J Tharion;Samuel N Cheuvront;Scott J Montain

190
Citations
Motion capture from inertial sensing for untethered humanoid teleoperation

N. Miller;O.C. Jenkins;M. Kallmann;M.J. Mataric

176
Citations
Physical simulation for probabilistic motion tracking

M. Vondrak;L. Sigal;O.C. Jenkins

170
Citations
Dogged Learning for Robots

D.H. Grollman;O.C. Jenkins

170
Citations
System and Method for Cooperative Remote Vehicle Behavior

Christopher Vernon Jones;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Matthew M. Loper

159
Citations
Automated derivation of behavior vocabularies for autonomous humanoid motion

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Maja J. Mataric

151
Citations
Markerless kinematic model and motion capture from volume sequences

Chi-Wei Chun;O.C. Jenkins;M.J. Mataric

138
Citations
Interactive Task Learning

John E. Laird;Kevin Gluck;John Anderson;Kenneth D. Forbus

124
Citations
PERFORMANCE-DERIVED BEHAVIOR VOCABULARIES: DATA-DRIVEN ACQUISITION OF SKILLS FROM MOTION

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins;Maja J. Matarić

124
Citations
Incremental learning of subtasks from unsegmented demonstration

Daniel H Grollman;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

119
Citations
Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics

Russell Toris;Julius Kammerl;David V. Lu;Jihoon Lee

102
Citations
Primitive-Based Movement Classification for Humanoid Imitation

Odest C. Jenkins;Maja J. Matarić;Stefan Weber

89
Citations
Creating Games: Mechanics, Content, and Technology

Morgan McGuire;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

84
Citations
Human and robot perception in large-scale learning from demonstration

Christopher Crick;Sarah Osentoski;Graylin Jay;Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

82
Citations
Learning Behavior Trees From Demonstration

Kevin French;Shiyu Wu;Tianyang Pan;Zheming Zhou

82
Citations
Sparse incremental learning for interactive robot control policy estimation

D.H. Grollman;O.C. Jenkins

79
Citations