Sethu Vijayakumar

Professor Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE

Sethu Vijayakumar FRSE (born 1970[1]) is Professor of Robotics[2] at the University of Edinburgh and a judge[3] on the BBC2 show Robot Wars. He is the Programme co-Director[4] for Artificial Intelligence at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, with the responsibility for defining and driving the institute's Robotics and Autonomous Systems agenda. He co-founded the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics[5] in 2015 and was instrumental in bringing the first [6][7] NASA Valkyrie[8] humanoid robot out of the United States of America, and to Europe, where is it a focus of research at the School of Informatics.[9] He was elected[10] as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2013.

Vijayakumar's articles on Incremental Online Learning in high dimensions, Natural Actor-Critic and other robot learning related publications have been cited[11] over 10000 times in academic papers and he is the recipient of the IEEE Transactions of Robotics (IEEE-TRO) King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award 2013.[12]

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  6. ^ "NASA's Valkyrie Humanoid Upgraded, Delivered to Robotics Labs in U.S. and Europe". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
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  8. ^ Kisliuk, Erin (23 September 2015). "Valkyrie". NASA. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
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  12. ^ Oyewole, Kenny. "IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society". www.ieee-ras.org. Retrieved 31 October 2016.