David M. Rosen
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Office
- ISEC 527
Research Focus
Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics
About
David M. Rosen is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences (by courtesy). Prior to joining Northeastern, he was a Research Scientist at Oculus Research (now Meta Reality Labs) from 2016 to 2018, and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) from 2018 to 2021.
He is broadly interested in the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of trustworthy autonomy. His research applies tools from nonlinear optimization, differential geometry and topology, abstract algebra, and probability and statistics to devise principled, computationally efficient, and provably robust algorithms for machine perception and control. Much of his recent work has explored the use of principled approximation schemes (such as convex relaxation) to efficiently compute provably-good solutions of challenging machine perception problems (such as SLAM).
His work has been recognized with multiple awards at flagship international venues, including the inaugural Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (2016), selection as an RSS Pioneer (2019), a Best Student Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (2020), and an Honorable Mention for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award (2021).
Education
- Sc.D. Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
- MA Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 2010
- BS Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 2008
Honors & Awards
- Honorable Mention, IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award (2021)
- RSS Pioneer (2019)
- Best Paper Award, International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (2016)
Research Overview
Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics
Research Centers and Institutes
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- Kevin Doherty, David M. Rosen, and John J. Leonard. “Performance Guarantees for Spectral Initialization in Rotation Averaging and Pose-Graph SLAM”. In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Philadelphia, PA, May 2022, pp. 5608–5614. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811788
- Yulun Tian, Kasra Khosoussi, David M. Rosen, and Jonathan P. How. “Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization”. In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics 37.6 (Dec. 2021), pp. 2137–2156. DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2021.3072346. Honorable Mention, King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award
- David M. Rosen, Kevin J. Doherty, Antonio Terán Espinoza, and John J. Leonard. “Advances in Inference and Representation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping”. In: Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 4 (May 2021), pp. 215–242. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-control-072720-082553. Invited article
- Frank Dellaert*, David M. Rosen* , Jing Wu, Robert Mahony, and Luca Carlone. “Shonan Rotation Averaging: Global Optimality by Surfing SO(p)^n ”. In: European Conference on Computer Vision. Aug. 2020. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-030-58539-6_18. Spotlight talk (top 5%)
- Valentin Peretroukhin, Matthew Giamou, David M. Rosen, W. Nicholas Greene, Nicholas Roy, and Jonathan Kelly. “A Smooth Representation of Belief over SO(3) for Deep Rotation Learning with Uncertainty”. In: Robotics: Science and Systems. Corvallis, OR, July 2020. Best Student Paper Award
- David M. Rosen. “Scalable Low-Rank Semidefinite Programming for Certifiably Correct Machine Perception”. In: International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. June 2020. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66723-8_33
- David M. Rosen, Luca Carlone, Afonso S. Bandeira, and John J. Leonard. “SE-Sync: A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Synchronization over the Special Euclidean Group”. In: International Journal of Robotics Research 38.2–3 (Mar. 2019), pp. 95–125. DOI: 10.1177/0278364918784361. Invited article (WAFR 2016 special issue).
- David M. Rosen, Luca Carlone, Afonso S. Bandeira, and John J. Leonard. “A Certifiably Correct Algorithm for Synchronization over the Special Euclidean Group”. In: International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics. San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43089-4_5. Best Paper Award
- David M. Rosen, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard. “RISE: An Incremental Trust-Region Method for Robust Online Sparse Least-Squares Estimation”. In: IEEE Transactions on Robotics 30.5 (Oct. 2014), pp. 1091–1108. DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2014.2321852
Aug 18, 2021
New Faculty Spotlight: David Rosen
David Rosen joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2021 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Mathematics.