Trust me I'm a doctor Andrea seen by a robot
(a) (b) (c)

Fig. 1. The individual under inve­sti­ga­tion; a) Pic­tu­red he­re in his na­tu­ral ha­bi­tat, but with a very unusual attire. b) As seen by a robot equipped with two cameras (one looking through a mirror). c) As seen by a dynamic vision sensor.

Count Age

Fig. 2. Stress and procrastination levels in the last 7 days (updated Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:16 PST). Stress is mea­su­red by the num­ber of flag­ged mes­sa­ges in the email in­box; pro­cra­sti­na­tion is mea­su­red by the me­dian age of tho­se mes­sa­ges (ma­te­rials and me­thods).

Andrea Censi

also:

third fourth fifth year Ph.D. student
Postdoctoral Scholar in Computing
and Mathematical Sciences

California Institute of Technology

email
andrea(at)cds.caltech.edu (PGP key)
cell phone
+1 (626) 872-3674 =
+1 (626) U-R-CENSI
office
Annenberg 320
address
1200 E California Blvd,
MC 107-81 91125 Pasadena, CA.

Travel plans

2013-11-03
/07
Tokyo, Japan
IROS 2013
2013-08-03
/09
Beijing, China
IJCAI-13
2013-07-17
/19
Zurich
ECC 2013
2013-06-24
/28
Berlin, Germany
RSS 2013
2013-06-16
/07-?
Zurich
AI Lab
2013-06-14
Pasadena
graduation ceremony
2013-05-06
/10
Karlsruhe, Germany
ICRA 2013

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