IDEAS Lab

Welcome to IDEAS Lab

Welcome to the interdisciplinary research lab, IDEAS (Intelligent Design for Empathetic and Augmented Systems) at Purdue Computer Science. Our research includes the design and implementation of scientific algorithms leveraging the “human in the loop” and their applications to robotics, computer graphics, AI, virtual environments, augmented intelligence, pedestrian and crowd dynamics, and medical / healthcare research.

Our research also focuses on building embodied computational models of human behaviors, and developing component algorithms of an intelligent agent (from sensing, to decision-making, to actuating). Our long-term research goal is to create engaging, socially intelligent agents that can interact with humans in innovative ways through expressive multi-modal interaction.

Some recent work includes combining these methods with machine learning, computer vision, and physically-based modeling for Multi-Agent Dynamics, Heterogenous Robotics, Autonomous Driving, Affective Computing and Virtual Reality. In addition to publishing papers at the leading venues, we have a long history of developing software packages and transitioning our technology into industrial products.

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30 Jun 2024
IDEAS has three papers accepted at IROS 2024.
01 Mar 2024
IDEAS has four full papers at CVPR 2024.
01 Mar 2024
IDEAS Lab published 5 papers in ICRA 2023 and IROS 2023.
30 Jan 2024
Team JARVIS not only represented Purdue University for the first time at the finals of the prestigious NASA Suits competition but also brought home the "Pay it Forward" award for our exceptional team spirit and helping attitude!
30 Jan 2024
IDEAS has one paper at AAAI 2024.
20 Jan 2024
IDEAS Lab along with the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue to develop a course on "Human-Machine Teaming".
20 Jan 2024
IDEAS organized Multi-modal Affective and Social Behavior Analysis and Synthesis in Extended Reality (MASSXR) workshop at IEEEVR 2024.
20 Nov 2023
IDEAS lab co-organized ACM SCA (Symposium of Computer Animation) 2023
20 Nov 2023
Our Lab IDEAS's Research on AI-driven Human-centric Robotics was recently featured by WRTV / ABC News
20 Nov 2023
Our Lab IDEAS's Research (and other industry and academic researchers working on this very necessary yet complicated AI for mental health space) discussed in NPR article
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