Miloš Žefran
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Contact
Building & Room:
1041 SEO
Address:
851 S. Morgan St, MC 154, Chicago, IL 60607
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Drop-In Hours Spring 2025
Student Drop-In Hours - Spring 2025
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| Tuesday | 03:30pm – 04:30pm | In person or Zoom |
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| Thursday | 03:30pm – 04:30pm | In person or Zoom |
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About
Research Interests
Human-Robot Interaction
Assistive Robots
Surgical Robotics
Cyber-Physical Systems
Autonomous Vehicles
Runtime Monitoring
Switched Systems
Selected Publications
- Rysbek, Z., Li, S., Mehri Shervedani, A., & Žefran, M. (2024). Proactive Robot Control for Collaborative Manipulation Using Human Intent. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3176–3182. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610909
- Oh, K.-H., Borgioli, L., Mangano, A., Valle, V., Di Pangrazio, M., Toti, F., Pozza, G., Ambrosini, L., Ducas, A., Žefran, M., Chen, L., & Giulianotti, P. C. (2024). Comprehensive Robotic Cholecystectomy Dataset (CRCD): Integrating Kinematics, Pedal Signals, and Endoscopic Videos. 2024 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMR63436.2024.10585836
- Muramatsu, N., Žefran, M., Stiehl, E., & Cornwell, T. (2024). Chapter 9: AI-Based Technology in Home-Based Care in Aging Societies: Challenges and Opportunities. In M. Garcia-Murillo, I. MacInnes, & A. Renda (Eds.), Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work: Interconnections and Policy Implications. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800889972.00017
- Shervedani, A. M., Li, S., Monaikul, N., Abbasi, B., Di Eugenio, B., & Žefran, M. (2023). An End-to-End Human Simulator for Task-Oriented Multimodal Human-Robot Collaboration. 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 614–620. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309444
- Devroye, N., Mulgund, A., Shekhar, R., Turán, G., Žefran, M., & Zhou, Y. (2023). Interpreting Training Aspects of Deep-Learned Error-Correcting Codes. 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2374–2379. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT54713.2023.10206783
- Li, S., Žefran, M., & Paprotny, I. (2022). Group-based control of large-scale micro-robot swarms with on-board Physical Finite-State Machines. 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 524–530. https://doi.org/10.1109/CASE49997.2022.9926706
- Parastegari, S., Noohi, E., Abbasi, B., & 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
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Notable Honors
2001, CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
Education
Ph.D., Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1996
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992