The students met with Prof. Oren Salzman who spoke to them about algorithmic motion planning meeting analysis. Prof. Salzman is a faculty member and researcher in the fields of Oren gave students an introduction into algorithmic motion planning in the context of robotic analyses and described the journey that led him to this field and its challenges and unrealized potential.
Prof. Salzman received his PhD from the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Dan Halperin. He subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, in the labs of Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maxim Likhachev. Prior to joining the Technion as a Senior Lecturer, Oren worked as a researcher in the National Robotics Engineering Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on re-examining classic computer science algorithms, tools and paradigms in order to cope with the computational challenges that arise when planning robotic movement. By combining techniques from a range of fields such as computational geometry, graph theory and computational learning, he aspires to provide efficient algorithms for complex robotic systems. He graduated with a BSc with honors from the Technion and an MSc with honors from Tel Aviv University.
