DEZHEN SONG

Assistant Professor

Email: dzsong@cs.tamu.edu
Phone: 979/845-5464
Office: HRBB 311C
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/dzsong

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering and Operation Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
M.S. Industrial Automation, Zhejiang University, 1998
B.S. Process Control, Zhejiang University, 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Networked robotics, multimedia, autonomous vehicle, optimization, automation

SELECTED RESEARCH SUPPORT

"Robotic BioTelemetry," National Science Foundation, Jan 2007 - Jan 2012.

"Collaborative Observatory for Natural Environment," National Science Foundation, July 2005 - July 2008.

AWARDS

TEES Select Young Faculty, 2007

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2007-2012.

Semi-finalist (with blue team), DARPA Grand Challenge, Oct. 2005

Kayamori Best Paper Award, (with Dr. Jingang Yi and Dr. Shengwei Ding), IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004 - present

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

Panelist, National Science Foundation, 2007

Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Networked Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2007

Associate Editor (AE), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Conference Editorial Board, 2007-2010

Panelist, IIS-GENI Workshop, National Science Foundation, November 2006

Program Committee Member, International Conference on Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2006 and 2007

Program Committee Member, The Seventh International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2006

Program Committee Member, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2006

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dezhen Song, Hyun Nam Lee, Jingang Yi, and Anthony Levandowski, "Vision-based Motion Planning for an Autonomous Motorcycle on Ill-Structured Roads," Autonomous Robots (accepted)

Dezhen Song and Ken Goldberg, "Approximate Algorithms for a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Camera," IEEE Transactions on Robotics (accepted)

Jingang Yi, Shengwei Ding, Dezhen Song, and Mike Tao Zhang, "Steady-State Throughput and Scheduling Analysis of Multi-Cluster Tools: A Decomposition Approach," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (accepted)

Dezhen Song, A Frank van der Stappen, and Ken Goldberg, "Exact Algorithms for Single Frame Selection on Multi-Axis Satellites," IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1., pp. 16-28, January 2006.

Ken Goldberg, Dezhen Song, and Anthony Levandowski, "Collaborative Teleoperation with Using Networked Spatial Dynamic Voting," The Proceedings of THE IEEE, Vol 91, Number 3, pp 430-439, March 2003.