Café Meetup on Portage Bay
Published Oct 29, 2021
It was wonderful to meetup with new and old Makeability Lab students at the newly opened cafe, Saint Bread, on the edge of campus at the Portage Bay waterfront.
Published Oct 29, 2021
Recent News from Jon
Congratulations to Maryam Hosseini on their successful PhD defense on semi-automatic sidewalk assessments. Wonderful work. Terrific presentation. Beautiful slides. Our work together played but a small role in this incredibly impactful research: Hosseini, M., Saugstad, M., Miranda, F., Sevtsuk, A., Silva, C. T., Froehlich, J. E. (2022). Towards Global-Scale Crowd+AI Techniques to Map and Assess Sidewalks for People with Disabilities. CVPR2020 Workshop: Accessibility, Vision, and Autonomy (AVA). DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2206.13677 Congratulations Maryam!
Aug 10, 2022 | Jon
Dhruv Jain just announced that he has accepted an Assistant Professorship in CSE at the University of Michigan (Twitter link). Congratulations Professor Jain! To celebrate the announcement and the completion of his dissertation, I was honored to go on a celebratory walk + tea with Dhruv. Wishing you all the best in Ann Arbor!
Jul 17, 2022 | Jon
Newly minted Dr. Liang He who starts his tenure-track professorship at Purdue in August (see News post) designed an incredibly thoughtful and creative "thank you" gift to honor his time in the Makeability Lab. The t-shirt specifies code in pseudocode similar to C++—a language that Liang and I often taught together with Arduino in our Physical Computing and prototyping courses—that says: class DeformLab : MakeabilityLab{ void Run(){ Console.Write("Print Future"); } } The code above is play on C++ inheritance model that essentially says that Professor Liang He's new Deform Lab extends the Makeability Lab. A very thoughtful, meaningful gesture!
Jun 12, 2022 | Jon
In tribute of our three PhD graduates from the Makeability Lab this year, we went to Ray's Boathouse to celebrate. Congratulations to soon-to-be-Drs. Manaswi Saha, Dhruv Jain, and Liang He. It was my distinct honor to serve as your advisor! Thank you to Makeability Lab students Xia Su and Jesse Martinez for joining in the celebrations. (Dhruv could not make it as he's been in India for roughly the past year due to COVID and other considerations—but we certainly celebrated in his name as well!).
