Honda Initiation Grant 2010 Winners
Honda R&D Americas and Honda Research Institute US, Inc. are pleased to announce the following winners for the Honda Initiation Grant 2010 Program. Each winning university professor received a grant award of $50,000presented at the HIG 2010 Symposium, held in Columbus, Ohio on July 8, 2010.
| Research Proposal |
Investigator |
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Socially Guided Machine Learning for Humanoid Robots |
Andrea Thomaz
Georgia Institute of Technology |
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Conversational Speech Synthesis |
Alan Black
Carnegie Mellon University |
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Enhancing Liquid Fuel Yield During Algae Pyrolysis in Structured Catalytic Reactors |
Michael Harold
University of Houston |
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Light and Flexible Multi-Element Structures that Resist Sound and Vibration Transmission |
Donald Bliss
Duke University |
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Dynamic Visual SLAM: Reconstructing Dynamic Environments from Mobile Cameras |
Yaser Sheikh
Carnegie Mellon University |
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