Machine Perception
Advanced proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensing approaches for robot control.
Professional Summary
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an Associate Member in the Department of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Previously, I was 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 lab PRIME Robotics at UBC is actively recruiting postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and visiting scholars who are passionate about robotics. More information can be found here. Feel free to reach out and please follow the instructions if you are interested in joining my group.
Projects
Textile-based Sensing and Actuation
Textile-based digital fabrication for sensing and actuation.
Robotic Manipulation
Bio-inspired dexterous robotic hands and human-level manipulation skill imitation.
Whole-Body Motion Control in Real Time
Control and planning for dexterous manipulation in real time.
Publications
(2026).
RealTwin: Concept Graph Representation and Grounding Framework for Reality-Preserving Digital Twin Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
(2025).
Learning Object Properties Using Robot Proprioception via Differentiable Robot-Object Interaction.
2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
(2024).
Thin-Shell Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics Simulations.
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
(2024).
Learning to Jointly Understand Visual and Tactile Signals.
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
(2024).
DiffTactile: A Physics-Based Differentiable Tactile Simulator for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation.
The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).