Jason Yosinski

About Me

Hi, I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab, where I research artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning. Recent projects:

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1. Nick Cheney, Jeff Clune, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson. “ Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking” arXiv:1304.4889. 19 April 2013.
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   Interactive evolution has shown the potential to create amazing and complex forms in both 2-D and 3-D settings. However, the algorithm is slow and users quickly become fatigued. We propose that the use of eye tracking for interactive evolution systems will both reduce user fatigue and improve evolutionary success. We describe a systematic method for testing the hypothesis that eye tracking driven interactive evolution will be a more successful and easier-to-use design method than traditional interactive evolution methods driven by mouse clicks. We provide preliminary results that support the possibility of this proposal, and lay out future work to investigate these advantages in extensive clinical trials.

   @article{cheney2013hands,
     title={Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking},
     author={Cheney, Nick and Clune, Jeff and Yosinksi, Jason and Lipson, Hod},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4889},
     year={2013}
   }
   

2. Nick Cheney, Jeff Clune, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson. “ Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking” arXiv:1304.4889. 19 April 2013.
   pdf | abstract▾ | bib▾

   Interactive evolution has shown the potential to create amazing and complex forms in both 2-D and 3-D settings. However, the algorithm is slow and users quickly become fatigued. We propose that the use of eye tracking for interactive evolution systems will both reduce user fatigue and improve evolutionary success. We describe a systematic method for testing the hypothesis that eye tracking driven interactive evolution will be a more successful and easier-to-use design method than traditional interactive evolution methods driven by mouse clicks. We provide preliminary results that support the possibility of this proposal, and lay out future work to investigate these advantages in extensive clinical trials.

   @article{cheney2013hands,
     title={Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking},
     author={Cheney, Nick and Clune, Jeff and Yosinksi, Jason and Lipson, Hod},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4889},
     year={2013}
   }
   

3. Nick Cheney, Jeff Clune, Jason Yosinski, and Hod Lipson. “ Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking” arXiv:1304.4889. 19 April 2013.
   pdf | abstract▾ | bib▾

   Interactive evolution has shown the potential to create amazing and complex forms in both 2-D and 3-D settings. However, the algorithm is slow and users quickly become fatigued. We propose that the use of eye tracking for interactive evolution systems will both reduce user fatigue and improve evolutionary success. We describe a systematic method for testing the hypothesis that eye tracking driven interactive evolution will be a more successful and easier-to-use design method than traditional interactive evolution methods driven by mouse clicks. We provide preliminary results that support the possibility of this proposal, and lay out future work to investigate these advantages in extensive clinical trials.

   @article{cheney2013hands,
     title={Hands-free Evolution of 3D-printable Objects via Eye Tracking},
     author={Cheney, Nick and Clune, Jeff and Yosinksi, Jason and Lipson, Hod},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4889},
     year={2013}
   }
   

4. Sara Lohmann, Jason Yosinski, Eric Gold, Jeff Clune, Jeremy Blum and Hod Lipson. “Aracna: An Open-Source Quadruped Platform for Evolutionary Robotics” Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (to appear). 19 July 2012.
   pdf | abstract▾ | bib▾

   We describe a new, quadruped robot platform, Aracna, which requires non-intuitive motor commands in order to locomote and thus provides an interesting challenge for gait learning algorithms, such as those frequently developed in the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life communities. Aracna is an open-source hardware project composed of off-the-shelf and 3D-printed parts, enabling other research teams to modify its design according to their scientific needs. Aracna was designed to overcome the shortcomings of a previous quadruped robot platform, whose legs were so heavy that the motors could not reliably execute the commands sent to them. We avoid this problem by locating all motors in the body core instead of on the legs and through a design which enables the servos to have a greater mechanical advantage. Specifically, each of the four legs has two joints controlled by separate four-bar linkage mechanisms that drive the pitch of the hip joint and knee joint. This novel design causes unconventional kinematics, creating an opportunity for gait-learning algorithms, which excel in counter-intuitive design spaces where human engineers tend to underperform. Because it is low-cost, flexible, kinematically interesting, and and improvement over a previous design, Aracna provides a useful new hardware platform for testing algorithms that automatically generate robotic behaviors.

   @inproceedings{lohmann2012aracna:-an-open-source-quadruped,
   	Author = {Lohmann, Sara and Yosinski, Jason and Gold, Eric and Clune, Jeff and Blum, Jeremy and Lipson, Hod},
   	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems},
   	Title = {Aracna: An Open-Source Quadruped Platform for Evolutionary Robotics},
   	Year = {2012 (to appear)},
   }
   
   

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Personal

• My calendar, maybe useful for scheduling meetings.
• Slides from Machine Learning Summer School, in Kyoto, Japan, 2012.
• A bit of science fiction I wrote for a class.
• Fall Break 2011 trip to Lake George with other grad students.
• Flood cleanup in Owego, NY.
• Five week Europe and San Francisco conference trip during the summer of 2011.
• Fireworks on the First of July, because Ithaca is weird.
• Backpacking trip in Ithaca.
• Cross-country skiing for the first time, in Ithaca.
• Trip to Vermont with my roommates.
• See some pictures from my summer 2010 backpacking trip through South America.
• The Robotics Program at Eliot Middle School, created by Steve Crosby and I (now Stem X, run by Erik Dreyer).
• Find me on Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, and Github.