The robot that beat Garry Kasparov actually needed a human to move the chess pieces. If robots exceeds adult performance in intelligence tests, they are still at their infancy when it comes to perception or mobility. One of the reason is that the human sense of touch is far from being understood. Therefore, I decided to devote my PhD at Aix-Marseille University in this field. My research was aiming at a better understanding of the role of the sense of touch in manipulation. It received the recognition of the Eurohaptic Society PhD Award and has been published by Springer (available in this link).

After these 3 years of research on human and psychophysical studies, I started a postdoc at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, within the Cognitive Robotic team. My goal was to apply the result of my PhD to equip industrial robots with a gentle touch, useful to pick fruits.

Last year, I have been granted the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship to conduct my project ReTouch for 3 years! Hoping that at the end of the project, a bilateral tactile telemanipulation system can bridge the gap for touch over a distance! Currently conducting my postdoctoral fellowship with MIT CSAIL, I am working with Prof. Edward Adelson.

NEWS!

• 2025-06: Our paper got accepted for IROS 2025!
• 2024-11: Our paper got accepted in Journal of Physiology!
• 2024-07: Our poster won the Best Work-In-Progress at the EuroHaptics conference in Lille, France.
• 2024-04: I competed in the 4th MIT Research Slam and won the first place and the audience choice, worth an article in the MIT News!
• 2024-01: Our work on the delicate tactile gripper got accepted at ICRA
• 2023-07: Freshly started my postdoctoral position at MIT :)
• 2023-04: Received the Best PhD Thesis recognition from Aix-Marseille University!
• 2023-02: Awarded the prestigious Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship!
• 2022-08: Our work on tactile encoding of slippage got published in Scientific Reports
• 2022-07: Received the Best thesis award from the EuroHaptics community in Hamburg, Germany and got the opportunity to published my work in Springer!
• 2022-06: Got many nice interactions at our booth in ERF, Rotterdam!