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17. B.S. Blais and S.R. Kuindersma. Developing receptive fields in spiking-rate models of<br />
synaptic plasticity. In Society for Neuroscience Conference Abstracts, Washington, DC,<br />
November 2005.<br />
18. B.S. Blais, M.Y. Frenkel, S.R. Kuindersma, and M.F. Bear. Exploring the roles of structure<br />
and noise in the mouse visual system. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference<br />
on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2005), Boston, MA, May 2005.<br />
Theses and Technical Reports<br />
19. S.R. Kuindersma. Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Robot Control. PhD Thesis,<br />
Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 2012.<br />
20. S.R. Kuindersma, R.A. Grupen, and A.G. Barto. Episodic Risk-Sensitive Actor-Critic.<br />
Technical Report UM-CS-2012-017, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts<br />
Amherst, June 2012.<br />
Seminars, Symposia, & Invited Talks<br />
• Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Robot Control, CSAIL, <strong>MIT</strong>, August 2012.<br />
• Variable Risk Policy Search for Dynamic Manipulation, New England Manipulation Symposium<br />
(NEMS), iRobot Corporation, May 2012.<br />
• Learning to Exploit Dynamics in Robot Systems, Science and Technology Lecture Series,<br />
Bryant University, November 2011.<br />
• Manipulating Dynamics: Contributions of Arm Motions to Balance Recovery, New England<br />
Manipulation Symposium (NEMS), Yale University, May 2011.<br />
• Learning Whole-Body Strategies for Mobile Manipulation, New England Manipulation Symposium<br />
(NEMS), University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2010.<br />
• Control Model Learning for Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation, North East Student Colloquium<br />
on Artificial Intelligence (NESCAI), Amherst, MA, April 2010.<br />
• Dexterous Mobility with the uBot-5 Mobile Manipulator, New England Manipulation Symposium<br />
(NEMS), WPI, May 2009.<br />
Professional Service and Memberships<br />
• Editorial Assistant, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (2009–Present)<br />
• Program Committee Member, New England Manipulation Symposium (NEMS 2010)<br />
• Student Volunteer, AAAI-11<br />
• Journal reviewing: IJRR (2012), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2009–2012)<br />
• Conference reviewing: Humanoids’09,12, NESCAI’10, ICRA’10,12,13, AAAI-SSS’12<br />
• Book proposal reviewing: <strong>MIT</strong> Press, CRC Press<br />
• Member of AAAI, IEEE, and the Technical Committee on Mobile Manipulation
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