Biography

• (2021 - present) Roboticist at Vicarious.
• (2014 - 2021) Ph.D. student at Northeastern University, College of Computer and Information Science. I'm doing research in the Helping Hands Lab, directed by Professor Robert Platt.
• (2014 - 2017) M.S. in computer science, Northeastern University, College of Computer and Information Science, in Boston, Massachusetts.
• (2008 - 2014) Was working on various projects related to laser beam control research for MZA in Dayton, Ohio.
• (2004 - 2008) B.S. in software engineering at Florida Tech, Department of Computer Sciences, in Melbourne, Florida.

Publications

Marcus Gualtieri.
Robotic Pick-and-Place of Partially Visible and Novel Objects
Ph.D. Thesis, 2021.
(PDF)

Marcus Gualtieri and Robert Platt.
Robotic Pick-and-Place With Uncertain Object Instance Segmentation and Shape Completion
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
(PDF) (Video) (Code) (Supplementary Results)

Marcus Gualtieri and Robert Platt.
Learning Manipulation Skills Via Hierarchical Spatial Attention
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020.
(PDF) (Video) (Code)

Robert Platt, Colin Kohler, and Marcus Gualtieri.
Deictic Image Mapping: An Abstraction For Learning Pose Invariant Manipulation Policies
AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, 2019.
(PDF) (Video)

Marcus Gualtieri and Robert Platt.
Learning 6-DoF Grasping and Pick-Place Using Attention Focus
Conf. on Robot Learning, 2018.
(PDF) (Video) (Code) (Slides)

Marcus Gualtieri, Andreas ten Pas, and Robert Platt.
Pick and Place Without Geometric Object Models
IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2018.
(PDF) (Video) (Code)

Andreas ten Pas, Marcus Gualtieri, Kate Saenko, Robert Platt.
Grasp Pose Detection in Point Clouds
The Int'l Journal of Robotics Research, 2017.
(PDF) (Video)

Marcus Gualtieri and Robert Platt.
Viewpoint selection for grasp detection
IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017.
(PDF) (Video)

Marcus Gualtieri, James Kuczynski, Abraham M. Shultz, Andreas ten Pas, Holly Yanco, Robert Platt.
Open world assistive grasping using laser selection
IEEE Int'l Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2017.
(PDF) (Video)

Marcus Gualtieri, Andreas ten Pas, Kate Saenko, and Robert Platt.
High precision grasp pose detection in dense clutter
IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016.
(PDF) (Video)

Code

• PointCloudsPython. Simple PCL bindings for Python and other utilities for processing point clouds. (GitHub)
• MentalMath. Educational tool for practicing mental addition, subtraction, and multiplication. (GitHub)

News

• (2021 June) Started at Vicarious.
• (2021 May) Defended my PhD thesis (successfully).
• (2020 October) Gave a talk for UMass Amherst's Machine Learning Friends Lunch, available here.
• (2019 January and October) Enjoyed interacting with Nick Wang's group at National Chiao Tung University. Thanks for allowing me to stop by!
• (2017 July) Received a paper award at the RSS 2017 workshop, New Frontiers for Deep Learning in Robotics! Thanks to the workshop organizers. The conference version of the awarded paper is Pick and Place without Geometric Object Models shown above.

References

• Web page style derives from Andreas ten Pas.