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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 198-219

Pasadena, CA 91101

Member of:

347J - Perception Systems

Tu-Hoa Pham

Member of Technical Staff

Education

• Ph.D. Robotics, Université de Montpellier, 2016
• M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, Université Paul Sabatier, 2013
• Dipl. Ing. Aerospace Engineering, ISAE-SUPAERO, 2013

Professional Experience

• Research Scientist, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan (2017-2018)
• Ph.D. Candidate, CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan (2013-2016)
• Visiting Researcher, FORTH Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece (2013)
• Flight Dynamics Intern, Airbus Defence and Space, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2012)

Research Interests

• Human motion tracking and understanding
• Autonomous robot perception and control
• Artificial intelligence with a focus on reinforcement learning

Publications, videos and code available at http://hoa.pm/

Publications

2021

T-H. Pham, B. Ridge, W. Seto, J. Nash, and S. Do, "Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template Synthesis and Matching - Experimental Results," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 14 May 2021.
T-H. Pham, W. Seto, S. Daftry, B. Ridge, J. Hansen, T. Thrush, M. Van der Merwe, G.Maggiolino, A. Brinkman, J. Mayo, Y. Cheng, C. Padgett, E. Kulczycki, R. Detry, "Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template Synthesis and Matching," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, issue 2, pp. 4009-4016, 18 March 2021.
Shreyansh Daftry, Barry Ridge, William Seto, Tu-Hoa Pham, Peter Ilhardt, Gerard Maggiolino, Mark Van der Merwe, Alex Brinkman, John Mayo, Eric Kulczyski, Renaud Detry, "Machine Vision based Sample-tube Localization for Mars Sample Return," IEEE Aerospace Conference, 06 March 2021.

2020

T. Pham, W. Seto, S. Daftry, A. Brinkman, J. Mayo, C. Padgett, E. Kulczycki, R. Detry, "Rover Localization for Tube Pickup: Dataset, Methods and Validation for Mars Sample Return Planning," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 05 February 2020.