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SUMMARY:Instrument Data Management and Automation (virtual event in partnership with Globus)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE »\n\n\n\nPlease contact Forough Ghahramani forough.ghahramani@njedge.net with any questions. \nPlease feel free to share with your networks. This event is part of the Edge Research Data Management Webinar Series in partnership with Globus. \nRachana Ananthakrishnan\,\nExecutive Director and Head of Products \nInstrument Data Management and Automation\nOctober 7\, 2025  •  2:00 – 2:45 PM (ET) \nManaging research data and compute tasks is increasingly complex and time-consuming\, especially with the scale of modern instruments and collaborative projects. This session offers a practical overview of how Globus services enable the automation of research data and compute management\, and thus eliminates repetitive manual steps and accelerates progress across every stage of the research data lifecycle. \nWe will present an overview of capabilities in the Globus platform for automation use cases\, including routine data backup and integrity checks\, end-to-end management of data from instruments such as cryoEM\, next-generation sequencers\, and fMRI. The presentation will share case studies where these services are used to support instrument data processing at scale from acquisition\, to analysis and publication\, and for cases where automation is used to enforce best practices and secure policies. \nPre-requisites: Some knowledge of Globus \nTarget Audience: Researchers\, IT professionals\, Developers\, Instrument facility managers \nAbout the Presenter: Rachana Ananthakrishnan leads the Globus department\, which delivers a research IT platform to national and international research institutions. She currently serves on the Internet2 InCommon Steering Committee\, Earth System Grid Federation Executive Committee\, and Scientific Advisory Board for National Microbiome Data Collaborative. \nHer work is focused on cyberinfrastructure for enabling research across a variety of domains\, and she has led security and data management for several NSF\, DOE\, and NIH funded initiatives. Rachana was a member of the Globus Toolkit engineering team and customer engagement teams\, leading the efforts in web services and security technologies. Rachana received her MS in Computer Science at Indiana University\, Bloomington. \nAbout Edge\nEdge serves as a member-owned\, nonprofit provider of high performance optical fiber networking and internetworking\, Internet2\, and a vast array of best-in-class technology solutions for cybersecurity\, educational technologies\, cloud computing\, and professional managed services. Edge provides these solutions to colleges and universities\, K-12 school districts\, government entities\, hospital networks and nonprofit business entities as part of a membership-based consortium. Edge’s common good mission ensures success by empowering members for digital transformation with affordable\, reliable and thought-leading purpose-built\, advanced connectivity\, technologies and services. \nwww.njedge.net
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Rutgers Robotics Workshop 2025
DESCRIPTION:Faculty\, Students and Industry Participants are invited to join us for this annual event as part of the NSF National Research Traineeship SOCRATES (Socially Cognizant Robotics for a Technology Enhanced Society) at Rutgers. \n\nEvent Details\n\nDate: Friday\, October 10\, 2025\nLocation: Civic Square Building (33 Livingston Ave\, New Brunswick\, NJ)\nRegistration: Required (Free)\nRegistration Link: Register Here\n\nThis annual robotics workshop brings together faculty\, students\, and industry representatives featuring both internal and external speakers as well as a poster session for students to present their robotics research. \n\n\nWorkshop Agenda\n8:30 – 9:00 Check-in\n9:00 – 9:30 Introduction\n9:30 – 10:30 Plenary Speaker\, Dhruv Shah\, Google DeepMind\, UC Berkeley\n10:30 – 10:45 Poster Spotlight Talks\n10:45 – 11:45 Coffee break & Poster Session\n11:45 – 12:30 SOCRATES Faculty Lightning Talks: Socially Cognizant Robotics in Action\n12:30 – 1:30 Networking Lunch\n1:30 – 2:30 Industry/Alumni Lightning Talks: AI in industry\n2:30 – 3:15 Student Talks (NRT fellows/trainees)\n3:15 – 4:15 Afternoon Keynote\n4:30 – 5:30 Robot Demonstrations and Industry Consortium Discussion\n\n\n\nFeatured Speaker\n\n\n\n\n\nDhruv Shah\, PhD\nGoogle DeepMind & Incoming Assistant Professor at Princeton University \n“Evaluating and Improving Steerability of Generalist Robot Policies” \n\n\n\n\nBio\nDhruv Shah is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and an incoming Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He recently obtained his PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley\, where he was advised by Sergey Levine. His research spans the fields of machine learning and robotics\, with the goal of building autonomous robots that can combine large-scale learning with real-world deployment. Dhruv is a Microsoft Future Leader in Robotics & AI (2024)\, Berkeley Fellow\, and his research has been nominated for and won several Best Paper Awards at premier robotics conferences like RSS and ICRA. His work has also been featured in several media outlets\, including IEEE Spectrum\, TechXplore\, and ZDNet\, along with several international venues. \n\n\nAbstract\nGeneral-purpose robot policies hold immense promise\, yet they often struggle to generalize to novel scenarios\, particularly struggling with grounding language in the physical world. In this talk\, I will first propose a systematic taxonomy of robot generalization\, providing a framework for understanding and evaluating current state-of-the-art generalist policies. This taxonomy highlights key limitations and areas for improvement. I will then discuss a simple idea for improving the steerability of these policies by improving language grounding in robotic manipulation and navigation. Finally\, I will present our recent effort in applying these principles to scaling up generalist policy learning for dexterous manipulation.
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