Jana Pavlasek
B.Eng. (McGill), M.Sc. (Michigan), Ph.D. (Michigan)
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Areas of expertise
Artificial intelligence Robotics Intelligent systems applications Robotic control and automation Computer vision
Artificial intelligence Robotics Intelligent systems applications Robotic control and automation Computer vision
Primary sphere of excellence in research
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Industry of the Future and Digital Society
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Robotics
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Probabilistic inference
- Computer vision
Affiliation(s)
- Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Associate member
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Conference paper
Journal article
Conference paper
Opipari, A., Pavlasek, J., Chen, C., Wang, S., Desingh, K., & Jenkins, O. C. (2024). DNBP: Differentiable nonparametric belief propagation. ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science, 1(1), 1-24.
Gaskell, P., Pavlasek, J., Gao, T., Narula, A., Lewis, S., & Jenkins, O. C. (2024, May). MBot: a modular ecosystem for scalable robotics education [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan.
Pavlasek, J., Mah, J. J. Z., Xu, R., Jenkins, O. C., & Ramos, F. (2024). Stein variational belief propagation for multi-robot coordination. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 9(5), 4194-4201.
Olson, E. A., Pavlasek, J., Berry, J. A., & Jenkins, O. C. (2023, May). Counter-hypothetical particle filters for single object pose tracking [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), London, United kingdom.
Biography
Jana Pavlasek is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Software Engineering Department (GIGL) at Polytechnique Montréal. She is also an Associate Academic Member at MILA. Her research focuses on robotic perception and planning under uncertainty and robot learning. Jana earned her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Robotics at the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University.
Education
- Bachelor of electrical engineering, McGill University
- Master of Science, University of Michigan
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
