Home Page
Who (or what) am I?
David (IPA: da.vid or da.vΙͺd) is:
A robotics/AI researcher from the Caribbean ποΈ .
A postdoc with the Intelligent Robot Lab at Brown University.
Graduate of the USF (University of South Florida) and UVI (University of the Virgin Islands).
What am I passionate about?
My research intersects robotics and AI; I work extensively on robot planning for meaningful purposes β in particular, domestic and service robotics for human-centered environments.
I am keenly interested in how domain knowledge at the level of human language and understanding can be designed for long-term robot autonomy.
To realize this, I envision robotic systems that exploit existing approaches in task and motion planning (TAMP), classical AI planning, and generalizable approaches such as object-level planning and semantic reasoning.
What's new?
Jan 11, 2023 β I am serving as Publicity Chair for the RSS Pioneers 2023 workshop! Follow our page @RSSPioneers on Twitter for more details!
Dec 14-18, 2022 β Will be attending CoRL 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand!
Nov 9, 2022 β My Blue Sky submission entitled Object-Level Planning and Abstraction was accepted for presentation at the CoRL 2022 Workshop on Long-Horizon Planning!
Jun 26 - Jul 1, 2022 β Attended RSS 2022, which was held at Columbia University, NY. I also presented my work in the RSS Pioneers Workshop 2022!
Jun 8-11, 2022 β Will be attending RLDM 2022 at Brown University, RI.
May 16, 2022 β I was selected to participate in the RSS Pioneers Workshop 2022 as part of RSS 2022 at Columbia University!
Jan 26, 2022 β Special Session entitled "βKnowledge Representation and Reasoning for Autonomous Agents" has been accepted to CASE 2022. Co-organized along with Yu Sun (USF) and Yunyi Jia (Clemson).
Nov 1, 2021 β Started new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.
Sep 30, 2021 β Completed my position as Postdoctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.
Jul 12, 2021 β I will be chairing an organized session entitled "Robots in the household: A review of task acquisition, planning, and execution" for the UR 2021 conference.
Oct 1, 2020 β Started new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Technical University of Munich, Germany.