Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
About
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Ph.D., is a Professor of Robotics and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Professor Jenkins earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Alma College (1996), M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (1998), and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Southern California (2003). He previously served on the faculty of Brown University in Computer Science (2004-15). His research addresses problems in robot learning from demonstration and human-robot interaction, primarily focused on dexterous mobile manipulation and robot perception. Professor Jenkins is currently serving as Vice President for Educational Activities for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Professor Jenkins was the founding Program Chair of the Robotics Major Degree Program launched in 2022 for undergraduates at the University of Michigan. He was founding Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Professor Jenkins is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Professor Jenkins is the recipient of the 2024 ACM/CMD-IT Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award for Scientific Scholarship, Civic Science, and Diversifying Computing.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Primitive-based movement classification for humanoid imitation
Year: 2000
Citations: 86
Venue: Proceedings, First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robotics
Latest Recorded Paper
Explicit Memory through Online 3D Gaussian Splatting Improves Class-Agnostic Video Segmentation
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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