News
April 6, 2024 - Welcome Day demos in Costello Gym, UML
April 4, 2024 - Our lab got 5 out of 5 papers accepted to Ubiquitous Robots
March 10, 2024 - Saba Rezaei and Monish Kotturu received best poster award at TAHRI
February 26, 2024 - HRI workshop paper by Monish Kotturu and Russ Perkins accepted
February 15, 2024 - THRI paper by Saba Rezaei and Monish Kotturu accepted
December 5, 2023 - Yasin Findik presented our paper at MRS 2023
November 18, 2023 - Open House demos at PeARL
November 15, 2023 - Hossein Haeri defended his Master's thesis!
October 22, 2023 - Open House demos at PeARL
October 17, 2023 - Immersive scholars Owen O'Brien and Hoang Nguyen presented their posters
September 21, 2023 - MRS 2023 paper by Yasin Findik accepted
September 20, 2023 - IROS 2023 workshop paper by Yasin Findik accepted
August 30, 2023 - IROS 2023 workshop paper by Hamid Osooli accepted
August 15, 2023 - Yasin Findik and Monish R. Kotturu presented posters at 2nd AI-Caring annual meeting.
July 27, 2023 - PeARL organized 1st Robot Learning workshop for incoming UML students.
July 25, 2023 - Amin Majdi successfully defended his Master's thesis!
July 12, 2023 - IEEE CDC paper by Yasin Findik was accepted!
June 27, 2023 - Hamid Osooli, Saba Rezaei, and Brendan Hertel presented at UR 2023
June 7, 2023 - Parisa Hajibabaee successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation!
Apr 27, 2023 - Monish R. Kotturu and Ethan Lennon presented their honors projects
Apr 14, 2023 - Three papers accepted at Ubiquitous Robots 2023
Apr 3, 2023 - Alok Malik successfully defended his Master's thesis!
Apr 1, 2023 - Welcome day demos at Costello Gym, UML
Mar 25, 2023 - Virtual graduate open house
Feb 12, 2023 - Ryan Donald presented our paper at ICARA 2023
Jan 19, 2023 - PeARL was funded by an NSF CAREER Award
Dec 8, 2022 - PeARL was selected for funding by Amazon's Greater Boston Tech Initiative
Nov 2, 2022 - ICARA 2023 paper by Zahra Rezaei, Russell Perkins, and Paul Robinette accepted
Nov 2, 2022 - ICARA 2023 paper by Ryan Donald, Peter Gavriel, and Adam Norton accepted
Oct 27, 2022 - Brendan Hertel gave a lightning talk during the dedication of the Richard Miner School of Computer and Information Sciences.
Oct 24, 2022 - Brendan Hertel presented at IROS 2022
Oct 23, 2022 - Open House tour at PeARL
Oct 12, 2022 - DECISIVE project final presentations at NERVE
Oct 8, 2022 - PeARL student presented 6 posters at NERC2022
June 30, 2022 - Brendan Hertel's paper was accepted at IROS 2022 [link]
April 9, 2022 - Welcome Day tour at PeARL
February 18, 2022 - ICARA 2022 paper by Ryan Donald, Brendan Hertel, and Christian Dumas accepted
November 14, 2021 - Open house tour at PeARL
October 6, 2021 - Brendan Hertel's paper was accepted at ICAR 2021 [link]
October 3, 2021 - Open house tour at PeARL
September 8, 2021 - Saba Rezaei's paper was accepted at AI-HRI, AAAI Fall Symposium [link]
July 29, 2021 - PeARL is part of NSF funded AI-Institute, AI-CARING [info][website]
July 15, 2021 - PeARL was funded by NSF M3X
June 30, 2021 - Brendan Hertel's paper was accepted at IROS 2021 [link]
May 29, 2021 - PeARL was funded by ONR
March 26, 2021 - I gave a talk at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
March 24, 2021 - Hossein Haeri's workshop paper was accepted at ALA2021 [link]
March 5, 2021 - PeARL was funded by ARL Strong seedling (cycle III)
January 21, 2021 - PeARL was funded by ARL Strong
December 17, 2020 - Student projects in Reinforcement Learning course [link]
November 18, 2020 - We held a virtual open house event
October 22, 2020 - We held a virtual open house event
October 2, 2020 - PeARL was funded by US Army CCDC
August 21, 2020 - Saba Rezaei's ICSR paper was accepted [pdf]
March 27, 2020 - PeARL was funded by ARL Strong seedling (cycle II)
March 4, 2020 - Brendan Hertel's workshop paper was accepted
February 1, 2020 - Welcome Day tour at PeARL
October 31, 2019 - Students from Haverhill high school visited PeARL
October 27, 2019 - Open house tour at PeARL
October 16, 2019 - Open house tour at PeARL
Aug 16, 2019 - Open Ph.D. position for Spring 2020 [Apply]
May 22, 2019 - Our team won second place in the FetchIt Competition at ICRA 2019
Dec 31, 2018 - Open Ph.D. position for Fall 2019 [Apply]