I am currently a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL working with Professor Daniela Rus. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania advised by Professor Mark Yim (ModLab in UPenn GRASP Lab ). My PhD thesis is about swarm, modular, and parallel robotics, including hardware design, modeling, control, and motion planning of two robotic systems — SMORES-EP and Variable Topology Truss. I am currently working on soft robotics and control, contact modeling, and multimodal sensing for robotics manipulation, including a multimodal dataset of human activities, dexterous robotic hands, textile-based sensing and actuation, and contact modeling of soft materials.
PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2021
University of Pennsylvania
MS in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, 2014
University of Pennsylvania
BS in Mechanical Engineering and Automation, 2012
Dalian Jiaotong University
Advanced proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing approaches for robot control.
Simulation engines of soft materials for manipulation tasks.
Textile-based digital fabrication for sensing and actuation.
Bio-inspired dexterous robotic hands and human-level manipulation skill imitation.
A multimodal dataset for human activities
Control and planning for dexterous manipulation in real time.
SMORES-EP, a hybrid swarm and modular robotic system.
Variable Topology Truss robots are hyper-redundant parallel modular robots.
A novel manipulator for aerial manipulation.