Mark Zolotas
Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- m.zolotas@northeastern.edu
- 409 DA
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
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About
Mark Zolotas received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, UK. He is currently a research scientist in the Robotics and Intelligent Vehicles Research (RIVeR) Lab at Northeastern University. His research interests span the domains of mixed reality, shared control and representation learning for human-robot interaction. All of these topics coincide with his overarching ambition to advance assistive robotics through transparent and seamless user experiences.
Selected Publications
- Zolotas, M. and Demiris, Y. “Disentangled Sequence Clustering for Human Intention Inference”. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
- Zolotas, M. et al. “Productive Inconvenience: Facilitating Posture Variability by Stimulating Robot-to-Human Handovers”. In IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2022.
- Zolotas, M., Wonsick, M., Long, P. and Padır, T. “Motion Polytopes in Virtual Reality for Shared Control in Remote Manipulation Applications”. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021.
- Zolotas, M. and Demiris, Y. “Towards explainable shared control using augmented reality”. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019.
- Zolotas, M., Elsdon, J. and Demiris, Y. “Head-mounted augmented reality for explainable robotic wheelchair assistance”. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.
Sep 28, 2021
NU Team Places 2nd at NASA RASC-AL Competition
Northeastern University won second place and best technical paper at NASA’s 2020-21 RASC-AL Moon to Mars Ice and Prospecting Challenge for their project “Percussive And Rotary Surveying & Extracting Carousel (PARSEC).”