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Aug, 2025 Two papers have been accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025. :tada:
Apr, 2025 I passed my PhD viva (defense)! I am grateful to my supervisors, Prof. Nathan Lepora, Prof. Efi Psomopoulou and Prof. Dandan Zhang, for their guidance and support throughout my doctoral journey. I also appreciate the support from the Viva Chair Prof. Jonathan Rossiter and the valuable feedback from my examiners, Prof. Shan Luo and Prof. Hongbin Liu. :tada:
Jan, 2025 I presented our peer-reviewed work on NeuralTouch at the 6th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop, held at King’s College London (KCL), UK, from January 7 to 8, 2025.
Dec, 2024 Our paper “Coarse-to-Fine Robotic Pushing Using Touch, Vision and Proprioception” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). :tada:
Dec, 2024 I am excited to continue my research in the field of robotics as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bristol, Bristol Robotics Lab, UK.
Nov, 2024 Our paper “Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces” has been accepted at the 12th International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2025. :tada:
Sep, 2024 Our paper “Anyrotate: Gravity-invariant in-hand object rotation with sim-to-real touch” is accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024. :tada:
Jun, 2024 I visited the LASR lab at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany from June 10 to 12, 2024, where I presented all research work conducted during my doctoral period and engage in academic discussions with Professor Roberto Calandra and his students.
May, 2024 I attended the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan, where I presented our work on Bi-Touch.
Apr, 2024 Our paper “Touchsdf: A deepsdf approach for 3d shape reconstruction using vision-based tactile sensing” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). :tada:
Jan, 2024 Our work on Tactile Saliency got nominated as the Best Workshop Poster at the 5th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop. :tada:
Dec, 2023 Our work Bi-Touch received the Best Workshop Poster at the NeurIPS 1st Touch Processing Workshop. :tada:
Oct, 2023 We are presentinig our work Tactile Saliency at IROS 2023 in Detroit, U.S.!
Oct, 2023 We are pleased to announce that the code for our Bi-Touch paper has been open-sourced! :tada:
Jul, 2023 Our poster about Attention of Robot Touch was presented at the International Robotics Showcase 2023 in Bristol, UK.
Jul, 2023 Our work on Bi-Touch: Bimanual Tactile Manipulation with Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning got accepted by RA Letter. Checkout our website! :tada:
Jun, 2023 Our work on Sim-to-Real Model-Based and Model-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tactile Pushing got accepted by RA Letter. :tada:
Jun, 2023 Our work on Tactile Saliency Prediction for Robust Sim-to-Real Tactile Control got accepted by IROS 2023. :tada: (Website)
Jun, 2023 I presented our poster at the ICRA 2023 ViTac Workshop in London, UK.
Apr, 2023 Our poster on Attention of Robotic Touch was accepted after single-blind review at the ICRA 2023 ViTac Workshop: Blending Virtual and Real Visuo-Tactile Perception.
Jan, 2023 Our poster of bimanual tactile robotic system got nominated as the best posters award at the 4th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop.
Oct, 2022 I presented our paper in IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan.
Sep, 2022 Our paper got nominated as the best student paper award at the 27th IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC2022). :tada:
Aug, 2022 We released the code for our Tactile Gym 2.0 paper (RAL/IROS 2022).
Jul, 2022 We have two papers got accepted by RAL/IROS 2022. :tada:
Jun, 2022 I presented a poster on Tactile Gym 2.0 in the 1st Bristol RL Symposium, Bristol, UK.
Nov, 2021 We presented our work on “Dexterous Robot Control Using Deep Learning and Biomimetic Touch” at the 5th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) in London, UK.
May, 2021 Our paper got accepted by RSS 2021. :tada:
Dec, 2020 I started my dotoral programme in Robot Learning at the University of Bristol supervised by Prof. Nathan Lepora in Bristol, UK. :fire:
Dec, 2019 Our paper got accepted by RAL/IROS 2020. :tada:
Dec, 2019 I presented our work in the 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop on Robot Learning in Vancouver, Canada.
Aug, 2019 We gave a tutorial on “Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning” in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and Robotics (RCAR), Irkutsk, Russia
Jul, 2019 I had a 2-week visit to the University of Michigan – Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute where I performed research collaboration with Prof. Paul Weng and Dr. Matthieu Zimmer in Deep Reinforcement Learning, Shanghai, China,
Dec, 2018 I presented our paper in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.