User profiles for Samir Menon

Samir Menon - Verified email at stanford.edu - Cited by 373
Samir Jordan Menon - Verified email at cs.stanford.edu - Cited by 93

Controlling articulated robots in task-space with spiking silicon neurons

S Menon, S Fok, A Neckar, O Khatib… - 5th IEEE RAS/EMBS …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emulating how humans coordinate articulated limbs within the brain's power budget
promises to accelerate progress in building autonomous biomimetic robots. Here, we used a …

Spiral: Fast, high-rate single-server PIR via FHE composition

SJ Menon, DJ Wu - 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce the SPIRAL family of single-server private information retrieval (PIR) protocols.
SPIRAL relies on a composition of two lattice-based homomorphic encryption schemes: the …

Mapping stiffness perception in the brain with an fMRI-compatible particle-jamming haptic interface

S Menon, AA Stanley, J Zhu… - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate reliable neural responses to changes in haptic stiffness perception using a
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) compatible particle-jamming haptic interface. …

Haptic fMRI: accurately estimating neural responses in motor, pre-motor, and somatosensory cortex during complex motor tasks

S Menon, M Yu, K Kay, O Khatib - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Haptics combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (Haptic fMRI) can non-invasively
study how the human brain coordinates movement during complex manipulation tasks, …

Human motion reconstruction and synthesis of human skills

E Demircan, T Besier, S Menon, O Khatib - … in Man and Machine: Motion in …, 2010 - Springer
Reconstructing human motion dynamics in real-time is a challenging problem since it requires
accurate motion sensing, subject specific models, and efficient reconstruction algorithms. …

YPIR: High-Throughput Single-Server PIR with Silent Preprocessing

SJ Menon, DJ Wu - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
We introduce YPIR, a single-server private information retrieval (PIR) protocol that achieves
high throughput (up to 75% of the memory bandwidth of the machine) without any offline …

Haptic fMRI: Combining functional neuroimaging with haptics for studying the brain's motor control representation

S Menon, G Brantner, C Aholt, K Kay… - 2013 35th Annual …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenging problem in motor control neuroimaging studies is the inability to perform complex
human motor tasks given the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner's disruptive …

Respire: High-Rate PIR for Databases with Small Records

A Burton, SJ Menon, DJ Wu - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2024 - eprint.iacr.org
Private information retrieval (PIR) is a key building block in many privacy-preserving systems,
and recent works have made significant progress on reducing the concrete computational …

Experimental analysis of human control strategies in contact manipulation tasks

E Klingbeil, S Menon, O Khatib - 2016 International Symposium on …, 2017 - Springer
Here, we present insights into human contact-control strategies by defining conditions to
determine whether a human controls a contact state, empirically analyzing object-to-…

A parameterized family of anatomically accurate human upper-body musculoskeletal models for dynamic simulation & control

S Menon, T Migimatsu, O Khatib - 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modeling human motion requires an accurate specification of musculoskeletal physiology,
yet there exists no method to quantify the modeling accuracy required, or to predict the effect …