Kali Hamilton Awarded Draper Scholarship
June 10, 2026
Congratulations to Kali Hamilton, who has been awarded a Draper Scholarship beginning August 2026, supporting her research on radar-based scene understanding!
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ARPG at ICRA 2026 in Vienna
June 5, 2026
The group was at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, June 1–5. Xujia Zhang presented “Octree Diffusion for Semantic Scene Generation and Completion” (Zhang, Crowe, Heckman) in the main conference, and Kali Hamilton presented “Weather-Robust Scene Semantics with Vision-Aligned 4D Radar” at the Radar in Robotics workshop.
Congratulations to Our Recent PhD Graduates
May 15, 2026
Congratulations to the group’s recent PhD graduates, who have moved on to positions in industry and government research labs. We are proud of you — go do great things!
Two Papers at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta
May 23, 2025
The group presented two papers at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta: “Online Diffusion-Based 3D Occupancy Prediction at the Frontier with Probabilistic Map Reconciliation” (Reed, Achey, Crowe, Hayes, Heckman) and “Foundation Models for Rapid Autonomy Validation,” a collaboration with Zoox.
Two Papers Presented at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi
October 18, 2024
We presented two papers at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi: RMap: Millimeter-Wave Radar Mapping Through Volumetric Upsampling and SceneSense: Diffusion Models for 3D Occupancy Synthesis from Partial Observation.
NSF CAREER Award for Radar-Based Perception
August 1, 2024
Christoffer Heckman has been awarded an NSF CAREER award (~$600K, 2024–2029) for “Radar-based Perception and Navigation in Visually Degraded Environments,” supporting the group’s work on millimeter-wave radar perception in smoke, dust, fog, and darkness.
Two IROS Conference Papers Accepted
June 30, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that two of our submissions have been accepted for publication at IROS 2024!
SubT Challenge 3rd Place at Final Event
September 24, 2021
MARBLE took home 3rd place in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Final Event. Follow our team on twitter, and check out the video feed from DARPA of the Final Event Competition as well as the Awards.
As part of our win, we have been awarded a prize of $500,000 and a cool big check.
ISER Conference Paper Accepted
October 1, 2020
Our submission to ISER, “Radar-Inertial State Estimation and Obstacle Detection for Micro-Aerial Vehicles In Dense Fog” was accepted.
SubT Challenge 4th Place at Tunnel Circuit
August 22, 2019
MARBLE took home 4th place in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit. Follow our team on twitter
ICCV Workshop Paper Accepted
August 16, 2019
Cecilia Mauceri’s paper “SUN-Spot: An RGB-D dataset with spatial referring expressions” will be presented at ICCV19 CLVL: 3rd Workshop on Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language.