Mini-Vitae for 2006 [Download Word Document ]

Name: Andrew Fagg
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science

Teaching
Spring:
AME 3623 Embedded Real-Time Systems 24
CS 5973/002; ART 6010/010 Sm[Art] Spaces Seminar (Art and Computer Science) 10
CS 5980 Res Master's Thesis 2
CS 5990 Independent Studies 1

Summer:
CS 5980 Res Master's Thesis 2

Fall:
CS 5973/002 Empirical Methods for Computer Science 7
CS 5980 Res Master's Thesis 2
CS 5990 Independent Studies 1


Thesis Completed
No data available

Dissertations Completed
Robert Platt (co-chair of PhD committee, Computer Science/University of Massachusetts): Control basis approach to learning for robot reaching, grasping, and manipulation

Advisees
Undergraduate:   6
  Graduate:   Masters: 4   PhD: 2

Awards and Recognitions
Undergraduate student Charles de Granville: named Outstanding Computer Science Senior by OU, and received an honorable mention for the 2007 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award

Research and Creative Activity
Conference Papers: Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Is it alive? Sensor Networks and Art, Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

de Granville, C., Southerland, J., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Learning Grasp Affordances Through Human Demonstration, Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'06), electronically published

Platt, Jr., R., Grupen, R. A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Improving Grasp Skills Using Schema Structured Learning, Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'06), electronically published

Shah, A., Barto, A. G., Fagg, A. H. (2006) Biologically-Based Functional Mechanisms of Coarticulation, Proceedings of the Spring Meeting on the Neural Control of Movement

Goldberg, D., Fagg, A. H., Hatsopoulos, N., Ojakangas, G., Miller, L. (2006) A Kernel-Based Approach to Predicting Arm Motion from MI Activity, Proceedings of the Spring Meeting on the Neural Control of Movement

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Is it alive? Sensor Networks and Art, Proceedings of the International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Journal Papers: Morales, A., Sanz, P. J., del Pobil, A. P., and Fagg, A. H. (2006) Vision-based three-finger grasp synthesis constrained by hand geometry, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 54(6):419-512

Patents: No data available
Refereed Book Chapters: No data available
Non-Refereed Book Chapters: No data available

Books
Authored Books: No data available
Co-Authored Books: No data available
Edited Books: No data available

Grants
External Funding: PulsePool (student art installation), sponsored by Turbulance and Rhizome; $3,500; Fagg percentage: 50%

Grant under review: Budget period: 4/07-4/10; Title: RI: Building Relational Task-Oriented Representations for Manipulation; Total Award Amount: $449,726; Fagg percentage: 50%

Grant Number: 125-514500; Budget Period: 2/15/05-1/31/08; Title: REU Site: Embedded Machine Learning System; Sponsor: NSF; Total Award Amount: $299,997.00; Fagg Percentage: 25%; Fagg Total: $74,999.25 (continued from previous year)

Grant Number: 125-547100; Budget Period: 5/1/05-4/30/07; Title: Development of a Biodirectional Brain Machine Interface; Sponsor: UN-NWU; Total Award: $286,558.00; Fagg Percentage: 100%; Fagg Total: $286,558.00 (half of these funds are new this year)

Senior Personnel: CI-TEAM Demonstration Project: Cyberinfrastructure Education for Bioinformatics and Beyond, PIs: Henry J. Neeman, Bruce A. Roe, Dee Wu, Horst Severini, National Science Foundation, 12/1/6 - 11/30/8, NSF-OCI-0636427



Bion: Tilles Center installation was sponsored in part by Elliott Stroka, Director of the Institute of Arts and Culture, Hillwood Art Museum at Long Island University

Bion: Living Arts of Tulsa installation was supported in part by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Software grant: Real-Time Innovations University Program: NDDS, WaveSurf, and WaveScope licenses, 09/2006-09/2007

Internal Funding: Budget Period: 12/22/2005-12/31/2006; Title: "Bion: Is it alive? Sensor networks and art"; $30,000; Sponsor: Offices of the President, Vice President for Research (the Research Council); Colleges of Fine Art and Engineering; and Schools of Art and Computer Science; Fagg Percentage: 50%; Fagg Total: $15,000 (continued from previous year)

D. F. Hougen, Q. Cheng, A. McGovern, Y. Dong, and A. H. Fagg, Computer Science Graduate Fellowship Program, Graduate College and College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 08/06 - 05/15


Presentations
National: Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), The Bion Sensor Network,, Invited talk at Upgrade! International, November 30 - December 3

Regional: Steiner, E., de Granville, C., Southerland, J., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Inferring Rules for Manipulation Tasks from Human Demonstration, OU Research Experiences Symposium, October 28 (student presentation)

de Granville, C., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Learning Grasp Affordances through Human Demonstration, OU Research Experiences Symposium, October 28 (student presentation). A similar talk was also given to the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory, NASA/Johnson Space Center, May 22nd

Southerland, J., de Granville, C., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Extracting Grasp Events from Human Hand Kinematics Data, Poster presentation at the OU Research Experiences Symposium, October 28 (student presentation)

Watson, B., Wang, D., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Toward Whole-Body Contact Sensing and Grasp Control, Poster presentation at the OU Research Experiences Symposium, October 28 (student presentation)

Watson, B., Wang, D., Southerland, J., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Whole-Body Contact Sensing, Presentation (by me) to the Dextrous Robotics Laboratory, NASA/Johnson Space Center, May 22nd

Fagg, Andrew and McGovern, Amy. (2006). Pushing the Boundaries: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Computer Science. Presented at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, November, 2006



Bion presentation to the Sooner Lions's Club, July 17, 2006


Service
University: Research talk given to ENGR 1410 class: October 9th & 10th

Committee: ENGR 1410/1420 (Introduction to Engineering)

Department: General Exam Committee Member: Pedro Diaz-Gomez

Committee: Graduate Enrollment Committee

MS committee member: Sreedevi Chandrasekaran: Control of Bio-Nano Robots, completed in 2006

MS committee member: Joshua J. Beitelspacher: Implicit Robot Localization through Prediction, completed in 2006

Numerous laboratory tours to visitors to Computer Science and SRTC

Two exit exam committees

Professional: Director, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site on Embedded Machine Learning Systems. 10 students at OU this summer (4 from outside OU); 3 others participated from the University of New Mexico

Reviewer: Journal of Autonomous Robotics

Reviewer: International Conference on Humanoid Robotics

Reviewer: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Reviewer: Journal of Neurocomputing

Reviewer: (journal) Psychological Review

Reviewer: Journal of Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

Panelist/Reviewer: National Science Foundation program on Computational Neuroscience

Judge, Oklahoma Botball competition, Feb 25 & 26, 2006


Other Activities
Student art installation: A. Archinal, C. Courtney, P. Cunningham, J. Gay, B. Goddard, J. Gomez, T. Hunt, J. Renyer, M. Roman (2006). PulsePool, shown at the Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, OK, December 20 - January 3

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006) Bion, Art Installation presented in Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild, January 30th - May 15th

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Bion, Art installation appearance at the iDEAs Exhibition at the International Digital Media and Arts Association Conference, Miami University, Oxford, OH, April 6-8

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Bion, Art installation appearance at the 33rd International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boston, MA, July 30-August 3 (acceptance rate for this conference: approx 5%)

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006) Bion, Art installation appearance at the Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, September 7-28

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006), Bion, Art installation appearance at Newark Between Us, Newark, NJ, October 22-December 17

Brown, A., Fagg, A. H. (2006-2007), Bion, Art installation appearance at Engaging Technology: A History & Future of Intermedia, Ball State University, November 16 - March 11



Art review: William V. Ganis, "Archival to Contemporary: Six Decades of the Sculptors Guild" (2006), Sculpture, 25(7):71-2. "Though the installation [of the entire exhibit] was quite dense, several pieces stood out for their conceptual and formal quality. ... Adam Brown's light and sound installation Bion (2005) was skillfully integrated into a separate architectural environment so that it could be seen glowing from afar, delighting the senses in an immersive encounter with its 1000 artificially intelligent elements."



Art review: James D. Watts, Jr. "Exhibit Explores Electronics, Artificial Intelligence" (2006) Tulsa World, Thursday, Sept 7. "Art and science come together with a touch of mystery and whimsy in 'Bion' ..."