Awards

• November 2011. Jeff Trinkle is awarded the "Guest Professorship for Autonomous Manipulation" at University of Freiburg.
• January 2011. Li (Emma) Zhang becomes "Grasping and Manipulation Intern" at Willow Garage.
• January 2010. Jeff Trinkle becomes an IEEE Fellow.
• November 2009. Jeff Trinkle receives a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• March 2009. Eric Meisner, Selma Sabanovic, Volklan Isler, Linnda Caporael, Jeff Trinkle are nominated for best paper award in HRI 2009 for "ShadowPlay: A Generative Model for Non-Verbal Human-Robot Communication."
• May 2008. Pat Marion and Onur Tekdas win Founder's Award of Excellence.
• February 2008. Pat Marion wins CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award honorable mention.
• January 2008. Volkan Isler wins NSF CAREER Award.
• June 2007. Nilanjan Chakraborty, Steve Berard, Srinivas Akella, and Jeff Trinkle win Springer Best Student Paper Award (and $2,500) at RSS 2007.
• May 2005. Jufeng Peng wins Joaquin B. Memorial Prize in Mathematics.
• May 2004. Peng Song, Vijay Kumar, Jong-Shi Pang, and Jeff Trinkle win ICRA Kayamori Best Automation Paper Award.
• January 2001. Srinivas Akella wins NSF CAREER Award.
• January 2000. Wes Huang wins NSF CAREER Award.