Graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam. He is a doctor of engineering at Ritsumeikan University. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, a researcher at the Mitsubishi Electric Advanced Research Institute, and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, he has been in his current position at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) since April 2017 where he is the director of Soft Haptics Lab. His current research interests are soft robotics, soft haptic interaction, tactile sensing, grasping and manipulation, bio-inspired robots.

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Perla Maiolino received the Bachelor Engineer degree in software engineering, the M.Eng. degree in robotics and automation, and the Ph.D. degree in robotics from University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2004, 2006, and 2010, respectively. She joined the Mechatronic and Control Laboratory, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and System Engineering, University of Genoa, where, as Ph.D. Student first and then as a Research Fellow, she carried out research about new technological solutions for the development and integration of large-area distributed tactile sensors. In 2017, she joined the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., where she pursued research in soft robots sensing and perception. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Science and a member of Oxford Robotic Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., where she is establishing the ORI Soft Robotics Laboratory.

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Nhan Huu Nguyen has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in Soft Haptics Labs, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan where he received the Ph.D. degree in robotics. He received his bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering at The University of Da Nang - University of Science and Technology (Viet Nam - 2015) and Ming Chi University of Science and Technology (Taiwan - 2017). His research focuses on exploiting complex physical interaction between deformable robots and the surrounding environment to enable novel functionalities such as tactile sensing, v.v., or facilitate learning and controlling tasks.

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Veronica J. Santos received Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering with a biometry minor from Cornell University in 2007. She held a post-doctoral position with the University of Southern California, where she contributed to the development of a biomimetic tactile sensor for prosthetic hands. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Director of the Biomechatronics Lab. Her research interests include human hand biomechanics, human-machine systems, haptics, tactile sensors, machine perception, prosthetics, and robotics for grasp and manipulation. She currently serves on the Editorial Board for the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Dr. Liang He is a researcher in soft robotics. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London with the Morph Lab. Since 2017, he has been a part of the EPSRC Motion and RoboPatient project, where he develops robot-assisted approaches for medical training. He aims to understand human behavior in haptic exploration and develop a framework to support the learning process. In 2021, he joined the Soft Robotics Lab at the Oxford Robotics Institute, where his work focuses on active soft sensing and using the inherited physical reservoir for assisted computation. He is also interested in the novel soft actuator/sensor design, fabrication, and control for unstructured environment navigation and Human-robot interaction

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Alessandro Albini received his Ph.D. in 2020 at the University of Genoa, Italy. His research interests are related to artificial robot skin technologies and their applications to human-robot interaction and robot control. During his Ph.D., he worked on methods to process and classify large area tactile data and on the development of tactile feedback-based control laws for robots. He joined the Soft Robotics Lab as a Post Doctoral Researcher in September 2020. He is currently working on robotic tactile perception under the supervision of Professor Perla Maiolino.

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