Aug, 2025 | Two papers have been accepted at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025. |
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. |
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). |
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. |
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. |
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). |
Jan, 2024 | Our work on Tactile Saliency got nominated as the Best Workshop Poster at the 5th UK Robot Manipulation Workshop. |
Dec, 2023 | Our work Bi-Touch received the Best Workshop Poster at the NeurIPS 1st Touch Processing Workshop. |
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! |
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! |
Jun, 2023 | Our work on Sim-to-Real Model-Based and Model-Free Deep Reinforcement Learning for Tactile Pushing got accepted by RA Letter. |
Jun, 2023 | Our work on Tactile Saliency Prediction for Robust Sim-to-Real Tactile Control got accepted by IROS 2023. (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). |
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. |
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. |
Dec, 2020 | I started my dotoral programme in Robot Learning at the University of Bristol supervised by Prof. Nathan Lepora in Bristol, UK. |
Dec, 2019 | Our paper got accepted by RAL/IROS 2020. |
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. |