Research in New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR)

Speaker

Anthony Tzes
Professor and ECE Department Head at UPAT

Abstract

NYUAD established CAIR over the past five years and extended its operation until 2031 with an intention of making it an international AI and robotics research hub. Over its first four years, CAIR participated in 187 conference articles and 130 journal publications while it organized several workshops, symposia and participated in several panel discussions. With its affiliated 21 faculty members (between NYUAD and NYU) spanning three difference divisions and several graduate researchers, CAIR’s research is organized into five pillars, covering a) collaborative control of multi-agent systems, b) embodied AI (perception, cognition), c) resilient AI and (adversarial) control, d) AI/Robotics for Human Augmentation and Healthcare, and e) Intelligent underwater vehicle-manipulator systems. This presentation focuses on the successive topics generated by CAIR over its first 5 years (drones, humanoids, haptics, et al.) acting as a springboard for the next half decade. This presentation is led by CAIR’s director Anthony Tzes, supplemented by the research efforts of CAIR’s four Co-PIs (Yann Le-Cun, Farshad Khorrami and Yi Fang).

About Speaker

Anthony Tzes (Senior Member, IEEE), is a graduate of Electrical Computer Engineering (ECE) Department (1985) at University of Patras (UPAT), Greece. He received his doctorate from the Ohio State University in 1990. From 1990 until 1999 he was a tenured associate professor with Polytechnic University, now New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering. He has been a Professor and ECE Department Head at UPAT since 1999. He has been the Chairman of IEEE’s Control Systems Society Greek Chapter, a member of the Greek committee of the European Control Association (EUCA), and member of several committees. Professor Tzes joined NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in 2017, as a tenured Professor at its Engineering Division. He is the Alan Howard Distinguished Professor in AI, the past Program Head of the EE and the Lead Investigator of NYUAD’s Center for AI and Robotics (2021-31). He has served in various positions, and as IPC-member at several international conferences. Prof. Tzes has received research funding from various organizations. He has authored more than 450 papers published in international journals and conferences. He has received various awards as co-author of published articles. He has also served in the editorial board of several journals. His research interests include distributed collaborative control of autonomous mobile agents, cooperative control of networked systems, and other control engineering applications.