Alan Papalia (@PapaliaAlan) profile picture

Robotics, Climate, and Environmental Monitoring ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿค– ๐ŸŒŠ Postdoc @Northeastern | Incoming Faculty @NAMEatUM PhD from @MIT_CSAIL & @WHOI

Cambridge, MA USA
Joined August 2021
Distributed Certifiably Correct Range-Aided SLAM Alexander Thoms, @PapaliaAlan, Jared Velasquez, @david_m_rosen, Sriram Narasimhan tl;dr: RA-SLAM->QCQP->SDR->Riemannian Staircase arxiv.org/abs/2503.03192
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An Overview of the Burer-Monteiro Method for Certifiable Robot Perception @PapaliaAlan, @TianYulun, @david_m_rosen, Jonathan P. How, @jleonardmit tl;dr: in title good paper! arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00117
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The MIT Robotics & Climate Working Group, led by @PapaliaAlan, @ch_dawson, @sywang2, and @jingnanshi, hosted a workshop bringing together researchers in robotics, climate science, and the built environment to discuss how roboticists can contribute ... [1/n]
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Thrilled to finally finish the Ph.D.! It was a lot of fun talking about my work on learning in factor graphs and tactile perception youtu.be/6ILCBoo16NA It's been a rather strange and wonderful journey these last few years at CMU. Excited to set off on a new adventure ๐Ÿš€
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