Address:
 Cynthia Matuszek
 Dept. of Computer
   Science and Engineering
 Box 352350
 University of Washington
 Seattle, WA 98195-2350

 Links:
 ▪ CSE department
 
 ▪ Dieter Fox
 
 ▪ The RSE Lab
 
 ▪ AI @ CSE
 
 ▪ Cynthia @ Cycorp

• Please consider joining us for the AAAI 2012 Workshop on Grounding Language for Physical Systems!

Bio

I'm a graduate student in the University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering department, working with professor Dieter Fox in the Robotics and State Estimation lab. I have also collaborated with CSE's computer security group and with Intel Labs Seattle, and am currently a fellow of the Intel Science and Technology Center on Pervasive Computing (ISTC). Prior to coming to UW, I worked at Cycorp, where my work focused on using knowledge in the Cyc knowledge base to support machine learning, as well as security applications of knowledge-based AI.

Research

My main research interests include robotics, machine learning, and knowledge representation. My current work focuses on the problem of natural language grounding: extracting semantically meaningful representations of human communication, and mapping those representations to aspects of the physical world in which our robot operates. We use natural language processing methods to parse human instructions into a formal robot command language, which can then be executed on a robotic platform that interacts with the real world.

Videos

My research is now conducted primarily on the Gambit manipulator arm, which was developed by a conjunction of UW, Intel, and Alium Labs. Our first project was teaching it to play chess robustly in a noisy, unpredictable environment.   Gambit showing off its chess-playing   Intel videotaped me talking about Gambit   Robot chess at AAAI 2010

Publications

• A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning. In Proc. of the 2012 International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2012. Cynthia Matuszek, Nicholas Fitzgerald, Luke Zettlemoyer, Liefeng Bo, Dieter Fox.

• Learning to Parse Natural Language Commands to a Robot Control System. In Proceedings of the 2012 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. In Press. Cynthia Matuszek, Evan Herbst, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dieter Fox.

• Interactive Learning and its Role in Pervasive Robotics. In Proc. of the ICRA Workshop on The Future of HRI, St. Paul, MN, June 2012. Cynthia Matuszek, Nicholas FitzGerald, Evan Herbst, Dieter Fox.

• Gambit: A Robust Chess-Playing Robotic System. In Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011. Cynthia Matuszek, Brian Mayton, Roberto Aimi, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Liefeng Bo, Robert Chu, Mike Kung, Louis LeGrand, Joshua R. Smith, Dieter Fox.

• Following Directions Using Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Osaka, Japan, March 2010. Cynthia Matuszek, Dieter Fox, Karl Koscher.

• A Spotlight on Security and Privacy Risks with Future Household Robots: Attacks and Lessons. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orlando, FL, October 2009. Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Joshua R. Smith, Tadayoshi Kohno.

• Autonomous Classification of Knowledge into an Ontology. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007. Matthew E. Taylor, Cynthia Matuszek, Bryan Klimt, Michael Witbrock.

• Guiding Inference with Policy Search Reinforcement Learning. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International FLAIRS Conference, Key West, FL, May 2007. Matthew E. Taylor, Cynthia Matuszek, P. Reagan Smith, Michael Witbrock.

• Common Sense Reasoning – From Cyc to Intelligent Assistant In Yang Cai and Julio Abascal (eds.), Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life, pp. 1-31, LNAI 3864, Springer, 2006. Kathy Panton, Cynthia Matuszek, Douglas Lenat, David Schneider, Michael Witbrock, Nick Siegel, Blake Shepard.

• Automated Population of Cyc: Extracting Information about Named-entities from the Web. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International FLAIRS Conference, pp. 153-158, Melbourne Beach, FL, May 2006. Purvesh Shah, David Schneider, Cynthia Matuszek, Robert C. Kahlert, Bjørn Aldag, David Baxter, John Cabral, Michael Witbrock, Jon Curtis.

• An Introduction to the Syntax and Content of Cyc. In Proc. of the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium on Formalizing and Compiling Background Knowledge and Its Applications to Knowledge Representation and Question Answering, Stanford, CA, March 2006. Cynthia Matuszek, John Cabral, Michael Witbrock, John DeOliveira.

• Converting Semantic Meta-Knowledge into Inductive Bias. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Bonn, Germany, August 2005. John Cabral, Robert C. Kahlert, Cynthia Matuszek, Michael Witbrock, Brett Summers.

• Searching for Common Sense: Populating Cyc from the Web. In Proc. of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005. Cynthia Matuszek, Michael Witbrock, Robert C. Kahlert, John Cabral, David Schneider, Purvesh Shah, Douglas Lenat.
  Note: This paper is occasionally mis-attributed to "Cynthia Matuszek Michael".

• A Knowledge-Based Approach to Network Security: Applying Cyc in the Domain of Network Risk Assessment. In Proc. of the Seventeenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2005. Blake Shepard, Cynthia Matuszek, C. Bruce Fraser, William Wechtenhiser, David Crabbe, Zelal Güngördü, John Jantos, Todd Hughes, Larry Lefkowitz, Michael Witbrock, Douglas Lenat, Eric Larson.

• Gathering and Managing Facts for Intelligence Analysis. In Proc. of the 2005 International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, Virginia, May 2005. David Schneider, Cynthia Matuszek, Purvesh Shah, Robert C. Kahlert, David Baxter, John Cabral, Michael Witbrock, Douglas Lenat.

• Knowledge Begets Knowledge: Steps towards Assisted Knowledge Acquisition in Cyc. in Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors (KCVC), pp. 99-105. Stanford, California, March 2005. Michael Witbrock, Cynthia Matuszek, Antoine Brusseau, Robert C. Kahlert, C. Bruce Fraser, Douglas Lenat.