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Lecture Series in AI: Vladlen Koltun
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Fri, Nov 13, 2026
10:30 AM – 12 PM EST (GMT-5)
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Details
10:30-11:00am Check-in
11:00-12:00pm Lecture, "On Agentic Manipulation Policies"
Join us for a lecture from world-renowned computer scientist and intelligent systems researcher Vladlen Koltun.
Advance registration required for both Columbia non-affiliates and Columbia affiliates.
About the Speaker
Vladlen Koltun received his PhD in 2002 and has worked across multiple fields of computer science. He has mentored more than a hundred PhD students, postdocs, research scientists, and PhD student interns, many of whom are now successful research leaders. Until 2021, he had served as the Chief Scientist for Intelligent Systems at Intel, where he built an international research lab, based on four continents, that produced high-impact results in robotics, computer vision, image synthesis, machine learning, and other areas.
Campus Access
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