Computer Science
Peter Allen is designing and building intelligent robots that interact with humans and improve surgical procedures, quality of life, and the capabilities of healthy and disabled individuals.
- Director, Columbia Robotics Laboratory, 1985 –
- Professor of computer science, Columbia University, 2000 –
- Affiliate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2000 –
- Associate professor of computer science (tenure), Columbia University, 1994-1999
- Associate professor of computer science, Columbia University, 1990–1993
- Assistant professor of computer science, Columbia University, 1985-1990
- ACM
- IEEE Life Member
- Rubinoff Prize for innovative research, University of Pennsylvania
- National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award
- Wegbreit Best Paper award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference
- Anton Philips Best Paper Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference
- Yinxiao Li, Xiuhan Hu, Danfei Xu, Yonghao Yue, Eitan Grinspun, and Peter Allen, Multi-Sensor Surface Analysis For Robotic Ironing, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, May 2016.
- Jacob Varley, Jonathan Weisz, Jared Weiss, and Peter Allen. Generating Multi-Fingered Robotic Grasps via Deep Learning IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2015, Hamburg.
- Robert Ying and Jonathan Weisz and Peter K. Allen. Grasping with your brain: a brain-computer interface for fast grasp selection International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), September 12 to 15, 2015, Sestri Levante, Italy
- Yinxiao Li, D. Xu, Yonghao Yue, Yan Wang, S-F Chang, E. Grinspun, and P. K. Allen. Regrasping and Unfolding of Garments Using Predictive Thin Shell Modeling Video , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, May 2015
- Jonathan Weisz, Alexander G. Barszap, Sanjay S. Joshi, and Peter K. Allen, Single Muscle Site sEMG Interface for Assistive Grasping, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) September 14-18, 2014. Chicago. Video
- Austin Reiter, Alexandros Sigaras, Dennis Fowler and Peter K. Allen, Surgical Structured Light for 3D Minimally Invasive Surgical Imaging, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) September 14-18, 2014. Chicago.
- Peter K. Allen, Matei Ciocarlie and Corey Goldfeder, Grasp Planning Using Low Dimensional Subspaces, in The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development, pp. 531- 564, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 95, Balasubramanian, Ravi, Santos, Veronica J. (Eds.)
- N Simaan, A Bajo, A Reiter, L Wang, P Allen, D. Fowler, Lessons learned using the insertable robotic effector platform (IREP) for single port access surgery, J. Robotic Surgery, April 2013.
- Austin Reiter, Peter K Allen and Tao Zhao, Appearance learning for 3D tracking of robotic surgical tools, The International Journal of Robotics Research November, 2013.
- Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Nancy Hogle and Dennis Fowler Insertable Surgical Imaging Device with Pan, Tilt, Zoom, and Lighting, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 10, 1373-1386 (2009).