Miloš Žefran
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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1041 SEO
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851 S. Morgan St, MC 154, Chicago, IL 60607
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Office Hours - Spring 2021
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| Monday | 11:00am – 12:00pm | General |
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| Wednesday | 11:00am – 12:00pm | General |
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About
Research Interests
Human-Robot Interaction
Assistive Robots
Cyber-Physical Systems
Autonomous Vehicles
Runtime Monitoring
Switched Systems
Selected Publications
- Chen, L., Javaid, M., Di Eugenio, B., and Žefran, M. (2015).
The roles and recognition of haptic-ostensive actions in
collaborative multimodal human–human dialogues. Computer
Speech and Language, 34(1), 201–231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2015.03.010 - Javaid, M., Ashrafi, S., Žefran, M., and Steinberg, A. D.
(2016). ToothPIC: An interactive application for teaching oral
anatomy. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 9(2),
184–189. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2015.2504963 - Johnson, S. C., Wicks, M., Žefran, M., and DeCarlo, R. A.
(2018). The structured distance to the nearest system without
property P. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(9),
2960–2975. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2018.2817163 - Noohi, E., Parastegari, S., and Žefran, M. (2015).
Computational model for dyadic and bimanual reaching movements.
2015 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 260–265. https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC.2015.7177723 - Noohi, E., Žefran, M., and Patton, J. L. (2016). A model for
human–human collaborative object manipulation and its
application to human–robot interaction. IEEE Transactions on
Robotics, 32(4), 880–896. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2016.2572698 - Parastegari, S., Abbasi, B., Noohi, E., and Žefran, M. (2017).
Modeling human reaching phase in human-human object handover
with application in robot-human handover. 2017 IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS), 3597–3602. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8206205 - Parastegari, S., Noohi, E., Abbasi, B., and Žefran, M. (2016).
A fail-safe object handover controller. 2016 IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
2003–2008. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487346 - Parastegari, S., Noohi, E., Abbasi, B., and Žefran, M. (2018).
Failure recovery in robot-human object handover. IEEE
Transactions on Robotics, 34(3), 660–673. https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2018.2819198 - Yavolovsky, A., Žefran, M., and Sistla, A. P. (2016).
Decision-theoretic monitoring of cyber-physical systems. In Y.
Falcone and C. Sánchez (Eds.), Runtime Verification (pp.
404–419). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46982-9_25
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Notable Honors
2001, CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science University of Pennsylvania, 1996
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering University of Pennsylvania, 1995
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992