Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
Director, Humanoid Engineering and Robot Systems (HERS) Lab
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Spelman College
williams at spelman.edu
http://www.spelman.edu/~williams
My research and teaching interests are in distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, multi-robot teams and humanoid robotics.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
- Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
SpelBots on CNN
The SpelBots Co-Captains, Jonecia
Keels and Jazmine Miller, were on
CNN
Saturday Morning live to discuss their prize winning iPhone App, HBCU
Buddy, and the SpelBots robotics team. They won the 2010 AT&T Big Mobile
on Campus Challenge. Past winners were from Harvard University and
Stanford University.
SpelBots Robotics Team
I founded and continue to coach the
SpelBots Robotics Team, the
first
all-women and African American undergraduate team to compete in the
International RoboCup Four-Legged Soccer Competition in Osaka, Japan
(2005) and Bremen, Germany (2006). We earned 2nd place in the RoboCup
2007 Atlanta Technical Challenge Passing Challenge event. In 2009
we accomplished a tie in the Championship match of the RoboCup
Japan Open 2009 Osaka Standard Platform League Nao Humanoid robot
soccer competition. We also successfully participated in the RoboCup 2010
Mediterranean Open. Watch the video highlights from our
2009 participation:
Advancing Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance
I am the founding Principal Investigator and Director for the
ARTSI
Alliance, an NSF Sponsored Program for spreading robotics to
students and faculty at HBCUs.
ARTSI is an alliance of
HBCUs and research institutions that develop educational and research projects centered around robotics. Find out more at http://www.artsialliance.org
Book: "Out of the Box: Building Robots, Transforming Lives"
Dr. Williams' inspirational book, "Out of the Box: Building Robots,
Transforming Lives", can be purchased on Amazon.com.
More info on his book is found at www.andrewbwilliams.com