Kevin Doherty
I am currently on the job market applying for faculty and industry research scientist positions. Feel free to reach out:
kdoherty <at> mit.edu
I’m a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the AeroAstro department, as part of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program. I am a member of the Marine Robotics Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), where I’m advised by John Leonard.
My research lies at the intersection of machine learning and autonomous robotic navigation. I’m particularly interested in the algorithms and representations necessary to endow real robots with the ability to operate robustly over extended time horizons without human intervention, supported by active, lifelong learning. My research is funded in part by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously I worked on distributed learning algorithms for underwater exploration with application to biological surveying tasks. Before that, I was an undergraduate student at Stevens Institute of Technology where I did research on robot mapping in the Robust Field Autonomy Lab under Brendan Englot.
News
| Aug 5, 2022 | Two papers accepted to IROS 2022 on spectral measurement sparsification for pose-graph SLAM and SLAM-supported self-training for 6D object pose estimation. |
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| Jul 15, 2022 |
This past May, I presented our work on Discrete-Continuous Smoothing and Mapping at the ICRA 2022 Workshop on Robotic Perception and Mapping. A video of my talk is now available on YouTube below. Special thanks to Kaveh Fathian and all the other organizers for putting together a wonderful workshop.
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| Jun 3, 2022 | I have been selected as part of the RSS Pioneers 2022 cohort! |
| Jan 31, 2022 | Our work on performance guarantees for spectral initialization in rotation averaging and pose-graph SLAM has been accepted to ICRA 2022. |
| Aug 26, 2021 |
I recently presented on “Robust SLAM: Representation and Inference” as part of the Tartan SLAM series. Thank you to Nikhil Varma Keetha and Paloma Sodhi for the invitation, and to the AirLab at CMU for hosting this seminar series.
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