Parker Ewen

Researcher, AI Foundations, Torc Robotics

Joined

August 2023

Names

Parker Ewen (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

****@torc.ai (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

AI Foundations, Torc Robotics (torc.ai)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Robotics, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)

2021 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Felix Heide

2025 – Present

PhD Advisor

Ram Vasudevan

2021 – 2024

Expertise

Mapping

2021 – 2024

State Estimation

2021 – 2024

Inference

2021 – 2024

Computer Vision

2021 – 2024

Publications

SLIM-VDB: A Real-Time 3D Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Framework
Anja Sheppard, Parker Ewen, Joey Wilson, Advaith Venkatramanan Sethuraman, Anran Li, Yuzhen Chen, Ram Vasudevan, Katherine A. Skinner
- Robotics and Automation: Letters
- Readers: Everyone
An Invariant Preserving Sparse Spectral Discretization of the Continuum Equation
Parker Ewen, Henry O. Jacobs, Ram Vasudevan
- SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
- Readers: Everyone
You've Got to Feel It to Believe It: Multi-Modal Bayesian Inference for Semantic and Property Prediction
Parker Ewen, Hao Chen, Yuzhen Chen, Anran Li, Anup Bagali, Gitesh Gunjal, Ram Vasudevan
- Robotics: Science and Systems
- Readers: Everyone
Modeling Uncertainty in 3D Gaussian Splatting through Continuous Semantic Splatting
Joey Wilson, Marcelino M. de Almeida, Min Sun, Sachit Mahajan, Maani Ghaffari, Parker Ewen, Omid Ghasemalizadeh, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Arnab Sen
- ICRA
- Readers: Everyone
LatentBKI: Open-Dictionary Continuous Mapping in Visual-Language Latent Spaces with Quantifiable Uncertainty
Joey Wilson, Ruihan Xu, Yile Sun, Parker Ewen, Minghan Zhu, Kira Barton, Maani Ghaffari
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Readers: Everyone
ConvBKI: Real-Time Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Network with Quantifiable Uncertainty
Joey Wilson, Yuewei Fu, Joshua Friesen, Parker Ewen, Kira Barton, Maani Ghaffari
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- Readers: Everyone
Let's Make a Splan: Risk-Aware Trajectory Optimization in a Normalized Gaussian Splat
Jonathan Michaux, Seth Isaacson, Challen Enninful Adu, Adam Li, Parker Ewen, Katherine A. Skinner, Ram Vasudevan
- LEAP 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Generating Continuous Motion and Force Plans in Real-Time for Legged Mobile Manipulation
Parker Ewen, Jean Pierre Sleiman, Yuxin Chen, Wei-Chun Lu, Marco Hutter, Ram Vasudevan
- 2021 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA)
- Readers: Everyone
These Maps Are Made For Walking: Real-Time Terrain Property Estimation for Mobile Robots
Parker Ewen, Adam Li, Yuxin Chen, Steven Hong, Ram Vasudevan
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Readers: Everyone
These Maps Are Made For Walking: Real-Time Terrain Property Estimation for Mobile Robots
Parker Ewen, Adam Li, Yuzhen Chen, Steven Hong, Ram Vasudevan
- Robotics and Automation Letters 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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