College of Engineering and Computing
Faculty and Staff
Jason O'Kane
| Title: | Professor, Associate Chair of Academics, Computer Science & Engineering |
| College of Engineering and Computing | |
| Email: | jokane@cec.sc.edu |
| Website: | http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/ |
| Phone: | 803-777-1791 |
| Office: | Room 2229, Storey Innovation Center |
Background
- Ph. D., University of Illinois (2007)
- M. S., University of Illinois (2005)
- B. S., Taylor University (2001)
Research
Professor O'Kane's research is in planning algorithms for robotics and autonomous
systems. As robot technology becomes more practical, it becomes increasingly important
to design robots that are suitable for domains that are unpredictable and inhospitable,
while ensuring that the resulting systems are robust and inexpensive. Because sensing
and uncertainty are central issues in robotics, it is essential to understand how
to solve robotics problems when sensing is limited and uncertainty is great. Professor
O'Kane's interests span sensor-based algorithmic robotics and related areas, including
planning under uncertainty, artificial intelligence, computational geometry, sensor
networks, and motion planning.