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Jeff Hawke

Alumni

Biography

Jeff came to Oxford in 2013 as a DPhil student and is a member of University College. He was working on perception systems for the autonomous car project, exploring how scene information can improve object detection and facilitate life long learning in perceptual systems.

He completed his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering on a Fulbright Scholarship at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA (2012). At Georgia Tech he worked with the Healthcare Robotics Lab on control systems and motion planning for robotic manipulation with whole arm tactile sensing.

Jeff also holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

In addition to studying, Jeff has spent time working in the robotics industry, completing internships at Rethink Robotics and Willow Garage, and working as a robotics engineer at a New Zealand based startup developing autonomous forklifts.

Publications

MRG Publications

2017

  • J. Hawke, A. Bewley, and I. Posner, “What Makes a Place? Building Bespoke Place Dependent Object Detectors for Robotics,” in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017.
    [Bibtex]
    @InProceedings{HawkeIROS2017,
    author = {Hawke, Jeffrey and Bewley, Alex and Posner, Ingmar},
    title = {What Makes a Place? Building Bespoke Place Dependent Object Detectors for Robotics},
    booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
    year = {2017},
    month = {October},
    pdf = {http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mobile/Papers/2017IROS_hawke.pdf},
    }

2015

  • J. Hawke, C. Gurau, C. H. Tong, and I. Posner, “Wrong Today, Right Tomorrow: Experience-Based Classification for Robot Perception,” in Field and Service Robotics (FSR), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015.
    [Bibtex]
    @InProceedings{HawkeFSR2015,
    author = {Hawke, Jeffrey and Gurau, Corina and Tong, Chi Hay and Posner, Ingmar},
    title = {Wrong Today, Right Tomorrow: Experience-Based Classification for Robot Perception},
    booktitle = {{F}ield and {S}ervice {R}obotics ({FSR})},
    year = {2015},
    address = {Toronto, ON, Canada},
    month = {June},
    pdf = {http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mobile/Papers/2015FSR_hawke.pdf},
    }

2014

  • C. Gurau, J. Hawke, C. H. Tong, and I. Posner, “Learning on the Job: Improving Robot Perception Through Experience,” in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on “Autonomously Learning Robots”, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2014.
    [Bibtex]
    @InProceedings{GurauNIPSWorkshop2014,
    author = {Corina Gurau and Jeff Hawke and Chi Hay Tong and Ingmar Posner},
    title = {Learning on the Job: Improving Robot Perception Through Experience},
    booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on ``Autonomously Learning Robots''},
    year = {2014},
    address = {Montreal, Quebec, Canada},
    month = {12 December},
    annote = {full-paper-refereed},
    pdf = {http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mobile/Papers/2014NIPSWorkshop_gurau.pdf},
    keywords = {workshop_posner, Experience Based Classification},
    }
Other Publications

2014

  • D. Park, A. Kapusta, J. Hawke, and C. C. Kemp, “Interleaving planning and control for efficient haptically-guided reaching in unknown environments,” in Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2014 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on, 2014, pp. 809-816.
    [Bibtex]
    @INPROCEEDINGS{park2014control,
    author={Park, D. and Kapusta, A. and Hawke, J. and Kemp, C.C.},
    booktitle={Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2014 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on},
    title={Interleaving planning and control for efficient haptically-guided reaching in unknown environments},
    year={2014},
    month={Nov},
    pages={809-816},
    doi={10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2014.7041456},
    Url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7041456&tag=1}
    }
  • M. Ciocarlie, F. M. Hicks, R. Holmberg, J. Hawke, M. Schlicht, J. Gee, S. Stanford, and R. Bahadur, “The Velo gripper: A versatile single-actuator design for enveloping, parallel and fingertip grasps,” The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 33, iss. 5, p. 753–767, 2014.
    [Bibtex]
    @article{ciocarlie2014velo,
    title={The Velo gripper: A versatile single-actuator design for enveloping, parallel and fingertip grasps},
    author={Ciocarlie, Matei and Hicks, Fernando Mier and Holmberg, Robert and Hawke, Jeffrey and Schlicht, Michael and Gee, Jeff and Stanford, Scott and Bahadur, Ryan},
    journal={The International Journal of Robotics Research},
    volume={33},
    number={5},
    pages={753--767},
    year={2014},
    publisher={SAGE Publications},
    Url={http://ijr.sagepub.com/content/33/5/753.short}
    }

2013

  • P. M. Grice, M. D. Killpack, A. Jain, S. Vaish, J. Hawke, and C. C. Kemp, “Whole-arm tactile sensing for beneficial and acceptable contact during robotic assistance,” in Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, 2013, p. 1–8.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{grice2013whole,
    title={Whole-arm tactile sensing for beneficial and acceptable contact during robotic assistance},
    author={Grice, Phillip M and Killpack, Marc D and Jain, Advait and Vaish, Sarvagya and Hawke, Jeffrey and Kemp, Charles C},
    booktitle={Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference on},
    pages={1--8},
    year={2013},
    organization={IEEE},
    doi={10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650464},
    Url={http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6650464},
    }