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  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Stefanie Tellex is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Control and Systems Engineering. Additional areas of study include Aerospace Engineering and Social Psychology.

The main topics Stefanie Tellex has contributed to include:

  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Topic Modeling
  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Stefanie Tellex has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including George Konidaris, Kaiyu Zheng, Jason Xinyu Liu, Ellie Pavlick, and Eric Rosen.

Their publications have appeared notably in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Robots That Use Language" (2020), published in Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • "Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research" (2021), published in Computer Speech & Language
  • "Multi-Resolution POMDP Planning for Multi-Object Search in 3D" (2021), presented at 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • "Learning to Detect Multi-Modal Grasps for Dexterous Grasping in Dense Clutter" (2021), presented at 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • "Towards Optimal Correlational Object Search" (2022), presented at 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Stefanie Tellex was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Understanding natural language commands for robotic navigation and mobile manipulation

    Stefanie Tellex;Thomas Kollar;Steven Dickerson;Matthew R. Walter

  • Quantitative evaluation of passage retrieval algorithms for question answering

    Stefanie Tellex;Boris Katz;Jimmy Lin;Aaron Fernandes

  • Toward understanding natural language directions

    Thomas Kollar;Stefanie Tellex;Deb Roy;Nicholas Roy

  • The Human Speechome Project

    Deb Roy;Rupal Patel;Philip DeCamp;Rony Kubat

  • Interpreting and Executing Recipes with a Cooking Robot.

    Mario Bollini;Stefanie Tellex;Tyler Thompson;Nicholas Roy

  • Asking for Help Using Inverse Semantics

    Stefanie Tellex;Ross A. Knepper;Adrian Li;Daniela Rus

  • Robots That Use Language

    Stefanie Tellex;Nakul Gopalan;Hadas Kress-Gazit;Cynthia Matuszek

  • Approaching the Symbol-Grounding Problem with Probabilistic Graphical Models

    Stefanie A. Tellex;Thomas Fleming Kollar;Steven R. Dickerson;Matthew R. Walter

  • Learning Semantic Maps from Natural Language Descriptions.

    Matthew R. Walter;Sachithra Hemachandra;Bianca Homberg;Stefanie Tellex

  • A Tutorial on Linear Function Approximators for Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning

    Alborz Geramifard;Thomas J. Walsh;Stefanie Tellex;Girish Chowdhary

  • Comparing Robot Grasping Teleoperation Across Desktop and Virtual Reality with ROS Reality

    David Whitney;Eric Rosen;Elizabeth Phillips;George Dimitri Konidaris

  • A natural language planner interface for mobile manipulators

    Thomas M. Howard;Stefanie Tellex;Nicholas Roy

  • Communicating and controlling robot arm motion intent through mixed-reality head-mounted displays:

    Eric Rosen;David Whitney;Elizabeth Phillips;Gary Chien

  • Grounding Verbs of Motion in Natural Language Commands to Robots.

    Thomas Kollar;Stefanie Tellex;Deb Roy;Nicholas Roy

  • Communicating Robot Arm Motion Intent Through Mixed Reality Head-Mounted Displays

    Eric Rosen;David Whitney;Elizabeth Phillips;Gary Chien

  • Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research

    Matthew Marge;Carol Y. Espy-Wilson;Nigel G. Ward;Abeer Alwan

  • Scanning the Internet for ROS: A View of Security in Robotics Research

    Nicholas DeMarinis;Stefanie Tellex;Vasileios P. Kemerlis;George Konidaris

  • ROS Reality: A Virtual Reality Framework Using Consumer-Grade Hardware for ROS-Enabled Robots

    David Whitney;Eric Rosen;Daniel Ullman;Elizabeth Phillips

  • Recovering from failure by asking for help

    Ross A. Knepper;Stefanie Tellex;Adrian Li;Nicholas Roy

  • An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid

    Sunil Vemuri;Chris Schmandt;Walter Bender;Stefanie Tellex

  • Grounding English Commands to Reward Functions

    James MacGlashan;Monica Babes-Vroman;Marie desJardins;Michael L. Littman

  • The Human Speechome Project

    Philip DeCamp;Michael Fleischman;Peter Gorniak;Jethran Guinness

Frequent Co-Authors

George Konidaris
George Konidaris Brown University
Matthew R. Walter
Matthew R. Walter Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Michael L. Littman
Michael L. Littman Brown University
Jimmy Lin
Jimmy Lin University of Waterloo

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