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Kris Hauser

Contact Info

785 Roble Ave Apt 3
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(510) 384-0564
khauser@stanford.edu

Education

Stanford University
Ph.D., Computer Science.
Expected graduation date: June 2008.

University of California at Berkeley
B.A., Computer Science
B.A., Mathematics
Graduation date: May 2003

Publications

Kris K. Hauser, Victor Ng-Thowhing, and Hector Gonzalez-Baños. "Multi-Modal Motion Planning for a Humanoid Robot Manipulation Task". In proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) 2007.

Kris K. Hauser, Tim Bretl, Kensuke Harada, and Jean-Claude Latombe. "Using Motion Primitives in Probabilistic Sample-Based Planning for Humanoid Robots". In proceedings of the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2006.

Kris K. Hauser, Tim Bretl, Jean-Claude Latombe, and Brian Wilcox. "Motion Planning for a Six-legged Lunar Robot". In proceedings of the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2006.

Kensuke Harada, Kris K. Hauser, Tim Bretl, and Jean-Claude Latombe. "Natural motion generation for humanoid robots". In proceedings of IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and systems (IROS), 2006.

Kris K. Hauser, Tim Bretl, and Jean-Claude Latombe. "Non-Gaited Humanoid Locomotion Planning". In proceedings of IEEE Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2005.

Kris K. Hauser, Tim Bretl, and Jean-Claude Latombe. "Learning-Assisted Multi-Step Planning". ICRA 2005 Conference Proceedings.

Kris K. Hauser, Chen Shen, and James F. O'Brien. "Interactive Deformation Using Modal Analysis With Constraints". Graphics Interface 2003 Proceedings. pp. 247-255.

Chen Shen, Kris K. Hauser, Christine M. Gatchalian, and James F. O'Brien. "Modal Analysis for Real-Time Viscoelastic Deformation". Technical Sketch. ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications.

Awards

2007-2008 Siebel Scholar Fellowship
2003-2007 Thomas V. Jones Stanford Graduate Fellowship

Work Experience

January 2004 - .
Stanford University
Research Assistant
Researching motion planning algorithms under Jean-Claude Latombe.

June 2006 - September 2006.
Honda Research Institute
Intern
Implementing motion planning algorithms on the ASIMO robot.

June 2003 - August 2003.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) R&D
Intern
Authored a Playstation 2 video game in its entirety for a SIGGRAPH 2003 Emerging Technologies exhibit. This demonstrated user input for video games using real-time motion capture from the EyeToy camera peripheral for the Playstation 2.

June 2002 - August 2002.
Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) R&D
Intern
Developed a set of utilities and libraries to allow developers to create efficient, real-time, elastically deformable content for the PlayStation 2 console system.

February 2002 - May 2003.
University of California, Berkeley
Research Assistant
Worked as a student research assistant with James O'Brien on the applications of modal analysis to real-time elastic deformation.

Teaching Experience

September 2007 - December 2007.
Stanford University
Course Assistant: Motion Planning
Assisted students with homework and programming projects, graded homework, guest lectured.

April 2007 - June 2007.
Stanford University
Course Assistant: Motion Planning for Robots, Digital Actors, and Other Moving Objects
Devised programming projects and homework problems, assisted students with homework, guest lectured.

January 2007 - March 2007.
Stanford University
Course Assistant: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Devised a homework assignment involving software programming, assisted students with homework, graded homework and exams, taught sections, guest lectured.

August 2001 - May 2002.
University of California, Berkeley
Reader: Introduction to Computer Graphics
Graded homework and projects.