VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Joshua Vekhter
dblp:339/8642
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computing education · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Legged, aerial and field robots · 100% | |
| Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
1 paper |
Human-robot interaction · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computing education
robotics education |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Responsible Robotics: A Socio-Ethical Addition to Robotics Courses · AAAI 2023 |
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots
field robotics |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Responsible Robotics: A Socio-Ethical Addition to Robotics Courses · AAAI 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
survey · 2.0role-playing exercise · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Responsible Robotics: A Socio-Ethical Addition to Robotics CoursesabstractWe are witnessing a rapid increase in real-world autonomous robotic deployments in environments ranging from indoor homes and commercial establishments to large-scale urban areas, with applications ranging from domestic assistance to urban last-mile delivery. The developers of these robots inevitably have to make impactful design decisions to ensure commercially viability, but such decisions have serious real-world consequences. Unfortunately it is not uncommon for such projects to face intense bouts of social backlash, which can be attributed to a wide variety of causes, ranging from inappropriate technical design choices to transgressions of social norms and lack of community engagement. To better prepare students for the rigors of developing and deploying real-world robotics systems, we developed a Responsible Robotics teaching module, intended to be included in upper-division and graduate level robotics courses. Our module is structured as a role playing exercise which aims to equip students with a framework for navigating the conflicting goals of human actors which govern robots in the field. We report on instructor reflections and anonymous survey responses from offering our responsible robotics module in both a graduate-level, and an upper-division undergraduate robotics course at UT Austin. The responses indicate that students gained a deeper understanding of the socio-technical factors of real-world robotics deployments than they might have using self-study methods, and the students proactively suggested that such modules should be more broadly included in CS courses. Joshua Vekhter, Joydeep Biswas |
AAAI | 1 |