I am an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), interested in tactile sensing and perception technologies, particularly combining sensory design and intelligence.
My research group primarily aims to create artificial tactile systems that can effectively sense multi-modal contact stimuli and infer contact information.
My research will enable autonomous systems to recognize physical contacts and take advantage of their body's surface for manipulation, motion planning, and nonverbal communication.
BIOGRAPHY
Assistant Professor within Robotics Section at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) [link]
Cyber Valley Research Group Leader in the Institute of Smart Sensors at University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Research Scientist in Haptic Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Postdoctoral Researcher in Haptic Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Ph.D. in Mechanical engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),Daejeon, South Korea
NEWS
2024
2023
NOV 01 - New PostDoc, Dr. Nitheesh joined my team. His research aims to create a functional, 3D printable sensing material.
SEP 20 - Guillem presented his work of cross-modal attention at Human Friendly Robotics Workshop [link]
SEP 01 - New PhD student, Yasmeena joined my team. Her research is to develop multiphysics simulation model of the tactile sensors.
AUG 15 - New PhD student, Alberto joined my team. He is interested in sensory-motor loop for contact cases.
AUG 01- Open PhD and Postdoc positions! [Check here]
JUL 10- Invited speaker to the IEEE International Conference on Flexible, Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS 2023) [link]
FEB 28 - Invited to the Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics as a guest editor. [Call for Papers]
JAN 15 - New PhD student, Guillem joined my team! He will study about utilizing tactile information in robot manipulation scenarios.
2022
NOV 08 - Visiting Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) for a talk [link]
NOV 01 - Master student, Akshay joined my team.
OCT 23 - Invited talk at the IROS workshop on Large-scale Robotic Skin [link]
JUL 21 - Participating and giving a lightning talk at the kick-off event of the ELLIS stutgart unit [link]
JUL 14 - Interview with German Orthopedics magazine ORTHOPÄDIE TECHNIK [link]
JUL 12 - Visiting my research fund sponsor, the Christian Bürkert Stiftung [link]
JUN 15 - Invited to the lightning talk at the Materials Innovation Workshop [info]
JUN 08 - New paper from the collaborative project about the hydrogel-based tactile skin is published at Science Robotics. [DOI]
APR 28 - Invited lecture at the AI Colloquium of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) , South Korea [zoom link]
APR 19 - New paper from the collaborative project about the practical social-touch perception system is published. [Open access DOI, Data]
APR 12 - Invited lecture at the Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering [link]
APR 01 - Master student, Keshav joined our team for his research thesis!
MAR 18 - New paper about predicting the force map using simulation and deep learning is published. [Open access DOI, Data]
2021
OCT 28 - Application deadline of the IMPRS Ph.D. program is coming soon! I am recruiting two IMPRS Ph.D. Students this year, so go ahead and apply now. (Link)
OCT 08 - I join the University of Stuttgart as a Cyber Valley Research Group Leader. [Cyber Valley, University of Stuttgart]
SEP 21 - Invited talk at the Brown Bag Brunch Seminar of the Matters of Activity [link]
JUN 24 - New paper about the ERT tactile sensor is accepted! [link]
APR 28 - Invited talk at the Cyber Valley colloquium [Information] [Webex link]
MAR 25 - Collaborated research paper about adaptive measurement for ERT sensor is accepted. [link]
2020
DEC 12 - Collaborated research paper about a touch-perceiving robot for children with autism is published. [link]
JUN 01 - Participating in virtual conference of ICRA 2020. One co-authored paper is nominated to the best student paper awards.