Professional Achievements / Experience (Page last updated: September 2017)
- I gave a lightning talk (25:20 onwards) at ROSCon 2017 on September 23, 2017 and was attending IROS 2017 in vancouver following ROSCon.
- I was interviewed by Cynthia Macdonald to cover the kind of robotics done at York University. Here is the article.
- I attended the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2017) in Sicily, Italy this summer.
- I won the Best Robotics Paper Award at the 14th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Edmonton, May 17-19, 2017 for my paper: "Person Following Robot Using Selected Ada-Boosting with a Stereo Camera, By Bao Xin Chen, Raghavender Sahdev and John K. Tsotsos, In the 14th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Edmonton, Alberta, May 16-19, 2017".
- I presented at the 2017 NSERC Strategic Network on Field Robotics in Ottawa. A demo of my person following was presented of the media. Discovery channel captured a few image sequences about my research.
- I will be presenting my paper on "Person Following Robot using Selected Online Ada-Boosting" at the 14th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, May 16-19, 2017 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- I came 3rd in the 3 minute thesis competition in the Departmental competition at York University on February 27, 2017.
- My paper titled "Detecting of Magnitude of news events" was presented at the 2016 International Conference on Web Intelligence in Omaha Nebraska,USA in October 13-16, 2016.
- I gave a talk about my research at the summer undergraduate conference on August 11, 2016 at York University. I was the graduate student representing the department of EECS. link to the slides click here.
- Gave a talk about my research at the Space Vision and Advanced Robotics workshop at MDA, Toronto, Canada on June 16, 2016.
- Attended and presented a poster at the annual NCFRN Field trials on Robotics at Sudburry, June 9-13, 2016.
- Oral presentation at the 13th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision 2016, June 1-3, 2016, Victoria, BC.
- Attended the RoboUniverse Conference in San Diego, California from December 14-16, 2016
- Attended and gave a demo of my plugin at the the Society for Neuroscience Conference 2015 in Chicago from October 17-20, 2015
- Attended, presented and gave a lightning talk at the ImageJ Users and Developers Conference 2015 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
- Attended and presented a poster at the NCFRN Field trials on Robotics in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada from June 13-19, 2015.
- Presented a poster on "Place Recognition for Localization of Mobile Robots" at the International Conference on Perceptual Organization at York University.
- Attended Mitacs Step Workshop for 'Development of Productive Teams' and 'Communicating with impact' in Toronto, Canada in June 2014.
- Exhibitor at the Intersec 2014 Exhibition held at Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, UAE January 19 – 21, 2014 organized by Messe Frankfurt. Interacted with Managing Directors, Technical Directors and many Potential customers from all over the world and gave them a working demonstration of many security equipments and products for the company Security Defence Systems, India
- Felicitated at BITSAA Global Meet 2014 with a memento for coming up with a successful start-up idea. Pitched my start up idea of an Under Vehicle Surveillance System at the meet to various CEOs, Managing Directors, investors, etc. of successful companies.
- Attended PyCon Conference in Bangalore in September 2013
- Technical head at Valonia (October 2011 - April 2014) : Conducted many workshops in colleges and taught engineering students concepts of Basic Robotics, Arduino Board, line followers, wall followers, PID algorithm, RC cars, raspberry pi, etc. http://valonia.co.in/the-team
Extra Curriculars Activities in College
- I am the Vice President of Finance for the Computer Science Graduate Student Association at York University (September 2016 - September 2017)
- Student Mentor to First and Second year students for the course Machine Learning under the Student Mentor-ship Program (teaching juniors about Machine Learning concepts) in my university (August 2013 - April 2014)
- Nucleus Member of CSA(Computer Science Association), BITS Hyderabad in 2011-2012
- Organized 2 events in pearl 2012 (cultural fest of our college),1 in Atmos 2012 (technical fest of our university)
- Core Member of Crux – The Programming and Computing Education club in my university
- Co-founder of ARC (Automation and Robotics Club) in my university (BITS Pilani - Hyderabad campus).
- Represented my school in India Public Schools Conference, Tennis tournaments for 2 years(2007,2008)
- I have the bronze standard in the international award for the young people in the D.O.E. (Duke of Edinburgh) which enabled me to teach economically backward and physically impaired children from slums and blind schools