The Organizers & The Speakers
Müge Cavdan (organizer)
Müge Cavdan is a postdoctoral researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen since 2021. She earned her P.hD. from the same university in Experimental Psychology with a focus on visual and haptic material perception. She was awarded the World Haptics Best Student Paper Award in 2019 and the Best Paper in EuroHaptics 2020. In 2022, she received Innovation in Haptics supported by the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Her research interests include material perception, active and affective touch, timing, and multisensory integration.
Knut Drewing (organizer & speaker)
Knut Drewing received the Ph.D. degree in psychology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, in 2001, and the postdoctoral lecture qualification (habilitation) in psychology from JLU Giessen, Giessen, Germany, in 2010. He worked in the MPIs for Psychological Research (Munich) and for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen). He is Professor at the Department of Psychology, JLU Giessen. His research interests include haptic perception, multisensory integration and time perception.
Katherine Kuchenbecker
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, Germany, where she leads the Haptic Intelligence Department. She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2006, did postdoctoral research at the Johns Hopkins University, and was an engineering professor in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania from 2007 to 2016. Her research blends haptics, teleoperation, physical human-robot interaction, tactile sensing, and medical applications. She delivered a TEDYouth talk on haptics in 2012 and has been honored with a 2009 NSF CAREER Award, the 2012 IEEE RAS Academic Early Career Award, a 2014 Penn Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, elevation to IEEE Fellow in 2021, and various best paper, poster, demonstration, and reviewer awards. She co-chaired the IEEE Haptics Symposium in 2016 and 2018 and is Associate Editor-in-Chief of the 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference.
Jörg Reisinger
Jörg Reisinger is AE-Engineer and Enabling Technology Owner for haptics and haptic technologies at Mercedes-Benz AG. Besides haptic specification and internal consulting of several departments, he is responsible for new haptic technologies and concepts, transferring and guiding them into serial production. Since 2008, he introduced a new haptic quality level of controls, as well as new active haptic systems like the Mercedes-Benz touchpads and the haptic touchscreens, like the popular MB Hyperscreen. His doctoral thesis dealt with the objective parameters of haptically perceived quality of control elements, for which he received the doctoral degree in mechanical engineering at TU Munich in 2009 in cooperation with Audi AG and Heilbronn University.
Angelika Mader
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Chase Tymms
Chase Tymms is a research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, working on haptic and multisensory perception research for augmented and virtual reality interactions. At Meta, Chase's research has included the development of haptic wearable devices, haptic rendering algorithms, and sample-efficient experimentation methods for modeling human perception. Before joining Meta in 2019, Chase earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, with a doctoral thesis on tactile roughness perception and geometry optimization for tactile fabrication.
Yasemin Vardar
Before joining to TU Delft, I was a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Haptic Intelligence Department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) in January of 2018. Before my Ph.D., I worked as a control engineer at TNO Additive Manufacturing Department in Eindhoven (the Netherlands). I received my M.Sc. degree in Systems and Control at the Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) in 2012, and my B.Sc degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabanci University (Istanbul, Turkey) in 2010.
Elisa Santella
Elisa Santella is one of the founding members of GREWUS GmbH. GREWUS develops and produces innovative acoustic components and haptic actuators. Since 2017, she has been Managing Director and responsible for Haptic Key Accounts. Together with her team, Elisa supports customers in integrating active haptics. She understands the market requirements on both a commercial and technical basis. Elisa has been working in the international automotive industry for over 20 years. Furthermore, she is Automotive Working-Group chair and Board Member for the Haptics Industry Forum, Industrial Chair of the EuroHaptics 2022, and one of the founding members of the Haptics Alliance.