Hanna Kurniawati

Senior Lecturer

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
University of Queensland

Contact Information:

Office: Building 78, Room 530
Phone: +61-7-336-52936
Fax: +61-7-3365-4999

Mailing Address:

Building 78 (GP-South)
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland (St. Lucia Campus)
Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

I will be joining Australian National University (ANU) Research School of Computer Science as a CS Futures Fellow / Senior Lecturer at the end of January'19.
If you're interested to join my group at ANU, please e-mail me at my gmail (same name as my UQ email, but at gmail.com).

My research focuses on algorithms to enable decision theory become practical software tools in robotics. Such tools will enable robots to design their own strategies, such as deciding what data to use, how to gather the data, and how to move, for accomplishing specific tasks, despite various modelling errors and uncertainty in the system and its operating environment.

My current research interest includes robotics, motion planning, planning under uncertainty, computational geometry applications, machine learning, and randomized algorithms. If you are interested to work with me on exciting research projects in decision making under uncertainty or robotics, please drop me an e-mail or stop by my office.

Before joining UQ, I worked with Nicholas M. Patrikalakis as a Research Scientist at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, MIT. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore, under the supervision of David Hsu. Prior to graduate studies, I studied at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia.

News

  • October 2018: I'll be giving a keynote talk at IROS 2018.
  • 16 - 19 May 2018: I am the general chair of IEEE SIMPAR 2018.
  • 2018: I am an Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2018.
  • 15 July 2017: Ali Agha, Chris Amato, and myself will be organizing a workshop on POMDPs in Robotics at RSS 2017.
  • 3-4 July 2017: Materials for my lectures on “Decision Making view of Machine Learning” at the AMSI Winter School 2017 are here.
  • 2017: I am an Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2017.
  • 15 February 2016: I receive a UQ Early Career Researcher award.
  • 18 November 2015: I receive Gold Award for ICT Researcher of the year from the Australian Computing Society (ACS) – ACS Digital Disruptors Awards.
  • 14 October 2015: I am featured in this year's ”25 women in robotics you need to know about”, in celebration of Ada Lovelace day.
  • 13 April 2015: My paper with Konstantin Seiler and Surya Singh (An Online and Approximate Solver for POMDPs with Continuous Action Space) is a finalist for best paper award at ICRA 2015.
  • 17 March 2015: My student, Haibo Wang, wins ICAPS 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper “In-silico Behavior Discovery System: An Application of Planning in Ethology” by H. Wang, H. Kurniawati, S. Singh, and M. Srinivasan.
  • 10 March 2015: I'm selected as a 2014 IEEE Trans. on Robotics Outstanding Reviewer.
  • 3 November 2014: TAPIR wins Best Open Source Software at UQ Innovation Showcase 2014.
  • 13 July 2014: We are releasing TAPIR (Toolkit for approximating and Adapting POMDP solutions In Realtime).