I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. I'm also the founder and director of the Robotic Vision Laboratory. My research focuses on robot perception, robot learning, and autonomous systems. I am interested in developing algorithms that enable machines to learn from their interactions with the physical world and autonomously acquire skills necessary to execute complex tasks over time.
Prospective students: If you are a current student at UT Arlington then please fill out this form. Otherwise, please apply directly to the PhD program and mention my name in your application. I am actively recruiting undergraduate/graduate students, who are U.S. citizens, to work on DoD and USDA projects.
Email: william.beksi at uta.edu
Office: Engineering Research Building 523, 500 UTA Blvd, Arlington, TX 76019
News
- I'll serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2025
- My PhD student Nolan Gutierrez was awarded a DoD SMART scholarship
- I will be a 2024 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
- Our AFRL-sponsored 3D computer vision project was featured as a UTA news release
- I'll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2024
- I will serve as a Guest Editor for a Drones special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in UAV Technology
- I presented my lab's latest work to the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate
- I will serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2024
- I received a USDA grant to create computer vision tools for automating high-throughput crop phenotyping
- In collaboration with krtkl, we've been awarded a U.S. Air Force Phase II contract to develop a 3D vision system for advanced manufacturing
- I'll serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2024
- Dongchul Kim and I were awarded a grant from Google to explore causal reinforcement learning
- I will be a 2023 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
- Nick Gans, Katie Skinner, and I will be organizing the first workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Robotics at IROS 2023
- My PhD student Minh (Jerry) Tram was awarded a DoD SMART scholarship
- I will serve on the Program Committee of ICVS 2023
- I'll serve as an Associate Editor for IROS 2023
- I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2023
- I've been invited to give a talk at the First Workshop on Photorealistic Image and Environment Synthesis for Computer Vision at WACV 2023
- I will be working with krtkl to create a neuromorphic stereo vision system for the U.S. Space Force as part of the Orbital Prime program
- I will be a 2022 ONR Summer Faculty Fellow at NSWCDD
- I have received a generous donation of tools from Stanley Black & Decker
- I will serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2022
- In collaboration with krtkl, we've been awarded a U.S. Air Force Phase I contract to develop a 3D vision system for advanced manufacturing
- I've joined the Standard for Measuring Robot Agility (IEEE P2940) working group
- Our work on thermal image super-resolution was an ICVS 2021 Best Conference Paper Award finalist
- Our work on probabilistic movement primitive control by control barrier functions was a CASE 2021 Best Conference Paper Award finalist
- I have graciously received a set of Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kits through the NVIDIA Grant Program
- I will be chairing the session "Stereo Vision Applications" at ICRA 2021
- I'll serve as an Associate Editor for UR 2021
- Our work on generating dense and colored 3D point cloud objects has been featured as a TACC-enabled science story
- I will be a Faculty Chair for the IROS 2020 tutorial Space Robotics for In-Situ Resource Utilization: Needs, Challenges, and Approaches
- I've been awarded an NSF REU Supplement
- Animesh Chakravarthy and I have received a UTA Research Enhancement Program grant to explore vision-based collision avoidance for UAVs
- I received an NSF CRII Award to investigate topological methods for robotic perception
- I've accepted an invitation to be an Associate Editor for UR 2020
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P.P. Karmokar, Q.H. Nguyen, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025
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Z. Lyu and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024
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J.A. James, H.K. Manching, A.M. Hulse-Kemp, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
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M.A.A Muzaddid and W.J. Beksi
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023
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M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2023
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M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023
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J.M. Cloud, M.Q. Tram, W.J. Beksi, and M.A. DuPuis
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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M.Q. Tram, J.M. Cloud, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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Z. Lyu, N.B. Gutierrez, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2023
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Q.H. Nguyen and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023
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M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022
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M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Workshops, 2022
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K. Dhal, P. Karmokar, A. Chakravarthy, and W.J. Beksi
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2022
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M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
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M.A.A Muzaddid and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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N.B. Gutierrez and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), 2021
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M. Davoodi, J.M. Cloud, A. Iqbal, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
Modeling, Estimation, and Control Conference (MECC), 2021
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Z. Lyu, N.B. Gutierrez, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2021
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M. Davoodi, A. Iqbal, J.M. Cloud, W.J. Beksi, and N.R. Gans
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2021
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P. Karmokar, K. Dhal, W.J. Beksi, and A. Chakravarthy
International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021
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R.E. Rivadeneira, A.D. Sappa, B.X. Vintimilla, S. Nathan,
P. Kansal, A. Mehri, P.B. Ardakani, A. Dalal, A. Akula, D. Sharma, S. Pandey, B. Kumar, J. Yao, R. Wu, K. Feng, N. Li, Y. Zhao, H. Patel, V. Chudasama, K. Prajapati, A. Sarvaiya, K.P. Upla, K. Raja, R. Ramachandra, C. Busch, F. Almasri, T. Vandamme, O. Debeir, N.B. Gutierrez, Q.H. Nguyen, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
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C. Collander, W.J. Beksi, and M. Huber
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
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M.S. Arshad and W.J. Beksi
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2020
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Z. Lyu, N. Gutierrez, A. Rajguru, and W.J. Beksi
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops, 2020
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R.E. Rivadeneira, A.D. Sappa, B.X. Vintimilla, L. Guo, J. Hou, A. Merhi, P. Behjati, A.H. Patel, V. Chudasama, K. Prajapati, K.P. Upla, R. Ramachandra, K. Raja, C. Busch, F. Almasri, O. Debeir, S. Nathan, P. Kansal, N. Gutierrez, B. Mojra, and W.J. Beksi
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2020
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Teaching
- Robotic Vision (CSE 5369), Fall 2024
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2023
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2022
- Computer Vision (CSE 6367), Spring 2022
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2021
- Computer Vision (CSE 6367), Spring 2021
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2020
- Computer Vision (CSE 6367), Spring 2020
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2019
- Computer Vision (CSE 6367), Spring 2019
- Artificial Intelligence I (CSE 4308/5360), Fall 2018