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Emperical Interference

Haptic Intelligence

Modern Magnetic Systems

Perceiving Systems

Physical Intelligence

Robotic Materials

Social Foundations of Computation


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Autonomous Vision

Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

Probabilistic Learning Group


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Physical Intelligence Article Phase Change of Gallium Enables Highly Reversible and Switchable Adhesion (Adv. Mater. 25/2016) Ye, Z., Lum, G. Z., Song, S., Rich, S., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(25):5088-5092, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Probabilistic Numerics Conference Paper Probabilistic Approximate Least-Squares Bartels, S., Hennig, P. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 51:676-684, JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings, (Editors: Gretton, A. and Robert, C. C. ), May 2016 (Published) URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots Article Shape-programmable magnetic soft matter Lum, G. Z., Ye, Z., Dong, X., Marvi, H., Erin, O., Hu, W., Sitti, M. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(41):E6007–E6015, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Conference Paper Sperm-shaped magnetic microrobots: Fabrication using electrospinning, modeling, and characterization Khalil, I. S., Tabak, A. F., Hosney, A., Mohamed, A., Klingner, A., Ghoneima, M., Sitti, M. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 1939-1944, May 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper TerseSVM : A Scalable Approach for Learning Compact Models in Large-scale Classification Babbar, R., Muandet, K., Schölkopf, B. Proceedings of the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 234-242, (Editors: Sanjay Chawla Venkatasubramanian and Wagner Meira), May 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Motion Poster Distinct adaptation to abrupt and gradual torque perturbations with a multi-joint exoskeleton robot Oh, Y., Sutanto, G., Mistry, M., Schweighofer, N., Schaal, S. Abstracts of Neural Control of Movement Conference (NCM 2016), Montego Bay, Jamaica, April 2016 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Peer Grading in a Course on Algorithms and Data Structures: Machine Learning Algorithms do not Improve over Simple Baselines Sajjadi, M. S. M., Alamgir, M., von Luxburg, U. Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Learning @ Scale, 369-378, (Editors: Haywood, J. and Aleven, V. and Kay, J. and Roll, I.), ACM, L@S, April 2016, (An earlier version of this paper had been presented at the ICML 2015 workshop for Machine Learning for Education.) (Published) Arxiv Peer-Grading dataset request BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Conference Paper Towards Photo-Induced Swimming: Actuation of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer in Water cerretti, G., Martella, D., Zeng, H., Parmeggiani, C., Palagi, S., Mark, A. G., Melde, K., Qiu, T., Fischer, P., Wiersma, D. In Proc. of SPIE 9738, Laser 3D Manufacturing III, 97380T, Bellingham, Washington, April 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Dispersion and shape engineered plasmonic nanosensors Jeong, H. H., Mark, A. G., Alarcon-Correa, M., Kim, I., Oswald, P., Lee, T. C., Fischer, P. Nature Communications, 7:11331, March 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Inflated soft actuators with reversible stable deformations Hines, L., Petersen, K., Sitti, M. Advanced Materials, 28(19):3690-3696, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Patent Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. February 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 URL BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Conference Paper Appealing female avatars from 3D body scans: Perceptual effects of stylization Fleming, R., Mohler, B., Romero, J., Black, M. J., Breidt, M. In 11th Int. Conf. on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP), February 2016 pdf BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Parallel microcracks-based ultrasensitive and highly stretchable strain sensors Amjadi, M., Turan, M., Clementson, C. P., Sitti, M. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 8(8):5618-5626, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Miscellaneous Remotely addressable magnetic composite micro-actuators Sitti, M., Diller, E., Miyashita, S. 2016, US Patent 9,281,112 BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Stretchable, Skin-Mountable, and Wearable Strain Sensors and Their Potential Applications: A Review Amjadi, M., Kyung, K., Park, I., Sitti, M. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(11):1678-1698, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Fabular: Regression Formulas As Probabilistic Programming Borgström, J., Gordon, A. D., Ouyang, L., Russo, C., Ścibior, A., Szymczak, M. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), 271-283, POPL ’16, ACM, January 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Perceiving Systems Article Human Pose Estimation from Video and IMUs Marcard, T. V., Pons-Moll, G., Rosenhahn, B. Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence PAMI, 38(8):1533-1547, January 2016 (Published) data pdf dataset_documentation BibTeX

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Article Magnetic Propulsion of Microswimmers with DNA-Based Flagellar Bundles Maier, A. M., Weig, C., Oswald, P., Frey, E., Fischer, P., Liedl, T. Nano Letters, 16(2):906-910, January 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article On estimation of functional causal models: General results and application to post-nonlinear causal model Zhang, K., Wang, Z., Zhang, J., Schölkopf, B. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technologies, 7(2):article no. 13, January 2016 (Published) PDF DOI BibTeX

Physical Intelligence Article Size optimization of a magnetic system for drug delivery with capsule robots Munoz, F., Alici, G., Li, W., Sitti, M. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(5):1-11, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Poster PGO wave-triggered functional MRI: mapping the networks underlying synaptic consolidation Logothetis, N. K., Murayama, Y., Ramirez-Villegas, J. F., Besserve, M., Evrard, H. 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2016), 2016 BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Causal, Data-driven Approach to Modeling the Kepler Data Wang, D., Hogg, D. W., Foreman-Mackey, D., Schölkopf, B. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 128(967):094503, 2016, Astrophysics Source Code Library ascl: 2107.024 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper A Convex Model of Momentum Dynamics for Multi-Contact Motion Generation Ponton, B., Herzog, A., Schaal, S., Righetti, L. In 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots Humanoids, 842-849, IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, 2016 DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article A Population Based Gaussian Mixture Model Incorporating 18F-FDG-PET and DW-MRI Quantifies Tumor Tissue Classes Divine, M. R., Katiyar, P., Kohlhofer, U., Quintanilla-Martinez, L., Disselhorst, J. A., Pichler, B. J. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 57(3):473-479, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Optics and Sensing Laboratory Article A Quaternary fault database for central Asia Mohadjer, S. E. T. A. B. R. S. K., Strube, T. A. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 16(16):529-542, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Book Chapter A cognitive brain–computer interface for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Hohmann, M., Fomina, T., Jayaram, V., Widmann, N., Förster, C., Just, J., Synofzik, M., Schölkopf, B., Schöls, L., Grosse-Wentrup, M. In Brain-Computer Interfaces: Lab Experiments to Real-World Applications, 228(Supplement C):221-239, 8, Progress in Brain Research, (Editors: Damien Coyle), Elsevier, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article A dynamic DFT approach to generalized diffusion equations in a system with long-ranged and hydrodynamic interactions Bleibel, J., Dominguez, A., Oettel, M. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28(24), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Materials Article A flexible method for the preparation of thin film samples for in situ TEM characterization combining shadow-FIB milling and electron beam-assisted etching Liebig, J. P., Goken, M., Richter, G., Mackovic, M., Przybilla, T., Spiecker, E., Pierron, O. N., Merle, B. Ultramicroscopy, 171:82-88, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Miscellaneous A note on the expected minimum error probability in equientropic channels Weichwald, S., Fomina, T., Schölkopf, B., Grosse-Wentrup, M. 2016 (Published) PDF Arxiv BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Active colloids at fluid interfaces Malgaretti, P., Popescu, M. N., Dietrich, S. Soft Matter, 12(17):4007-4023, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Algorithmic independence of initial condition and dynamical law in thermodynamics and causal inference Janzing, D., Chaves, R., Schölkopf, B. New Journal of Physics, 18(9):article no. 093052, 2016 (Published) PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article An overview of quantitative approaches in Gestalt perception Jäkel, F., Singh, M., Wichmann, F. A., Herzog, M. H. Vision Research, 126:3-8, 2016 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Anisotropic particles near surfaces: Propulsion force and friction Müller, B., Krüger, M. Physical Review A, 93, American Physical Society, New York, NY, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Artificial micro-swimmers in simulated natural environments Katuri, J., Seo, K. D., Kim, D. S., Sanchez, S. Lab on a Chip, 16(7):1101-1105, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article BOiS—Berlin Object in Scene Database: Controlled Photographic Images for Visual Search Experiments with Quantified Contextual Priors Mohr, J., Seyfarth, J., Lueschow, A., Weber, J. E., Wichmann, F. A., Obermayer, K. Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Movement Generation and Control Autonomous Motion Conference Paper Balancing and Walking Using Full Dynamics LQR Control With Contact Constraints Mason, S., Rotella, N., Schaal, S., Righetti, L. In 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 63-68, IEEE, Cancun, Mexico, 2016 DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Biohybrid Janus Motors Driven by Escherichia coli Stanton, M. M., Simmchen, J., Ma, X., Miguel-Lopéz, A., Sanchez, S. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 3(2), Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Bootstrat: Population Informed Bootstrapping for Rare Variant Tests Huang, H., Peloso, G. M., Howrigan, D., Rakitsch, B., Simon-Gabriel, C. J., Goldstein, J. I., Daly, M. J., Borgwardt, K., Neale, B. M. bioRxiv, 2016, preprint (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Theory of Inhomogeneous Condensed Matter Article Bubble-Free Propulsion of Ultrasmall Tubular Nanojets Powered by Biocatalytic Reactions Ma, X., Hortelao, A. C., Miquel-Lopez, A., Sanchez, S. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(42):13782-13785, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 2016 DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Conference Paper Causal and statistical learning Schölkopf, B., Janzing, D., Lopez-Paz, D. Oberwolfach Reports, 13(3):1896-1899, (Editors: A. Christmann and K. Jetter and S. Smale and D.-X. Zhou), 2016 (Published) PDF DOI URL BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal discovery and inference: concepts and recent methodological advances Spirtes, P., Zhang, K. Applied Informatics, 3(3):1-28, 2016 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Empirical Inference Article Causal inference using invariant prediction: identification and confidence intervals Peters, J., Bühlmann, P., Meinshausen, N. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology), 78(5):947-1012, 2016, (with discussion) (Published) DOI URL BibTeX