Plenary Speakers
Koushil Sreenath
UC Berkeley
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Biography
Koushil Sreenath is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, at UC Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MI, in 2011. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the GRASP Lab at University of Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2013 and an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2013 to 2017. His research interest lies at the intersection of highly dynamic robotics and applied nonlinear control. His work on dynamic legged locomotion on the bipedal robot MABEL was featured on The Discovery Channel, CNN, ESPN, FOX, and CBS. His work on dynamic aerial manipulation was featured on the IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, and Huffington Post. His work on adaptive sampling with mobile sensor networks was published as a book entitled Adaptive Sampling with Mobile WSN (IET). He received the Best Paper Award at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference in 2013, and the Google Faculty Research Award in Robotics in 2015.
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Hiroyuki Shinoda
University of Tokyo
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Beyond Touch: High-Fidelity Noncontact Haptics Supporting the Mind
Artificial Intelligence, which is currently revolutionizing workflow automation, will eventually shift its focus toward human beings themselves. Technological priorities are expected to transition toward enhancing human well-being and improving both physical and mental health. In this context, haptics is expected to become an increasingly vital channel for human-computer interfaces; however, haptic technology remains underutilized in IT today.
This talk will discuss the necessity of this shift and the emerging technologies that address it. I will introduce technologies that are rapidly becoming a reality, capable of reproducing and generating haptic sensations with high-fidelity and versatility without requiring any specialized equipment on the user’s body. I will demonstrate how these technologies possess the potential not only to increase operational efficiency but also to support mental health, fostering a healthier and more fulfilling life. |
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Biography
Hiroyuki Shinoda is Professor and Vice Dean at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He also serves as Vice President of SICE. After receiving his Ph.D., he began his career as an Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (1995–1999), during which he also spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He was an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo from 2000 to 2012 and has held his current professorship since 2013.
His group demonstrated the world’s first noncontact ultrasound tactile display in 2008. His primary research focus lies in enhancing the realism and facilitating the social implementation of this technology. His research group has received numerous awards, including the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 1999 and the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Paper Award. He has also held significant leadership roles in the research community, serving as General Chair for Asia Haptics 2016, Program Co-Chair for EuroHaptics 2018, General Co-Chair for the IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019, and Steering Committee Chair for the IEEE World Haptics Conference 2021. |
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Jean Oh
Carnegie Mellon University
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Biography
Jean Oh is an Associate Research Professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and head of the roBot Intelligence Group (BIG). Jean’s research focuses on building Creative Physical AI technologies that remind us of “what makes us human,” promoting human values such as safety, creativity, and compassion across diverse domains including self-driving vehicles, safe aviation, and arts. Jean’s work on social robot navigation and creative robotics has won several best paper awards at major robotics conferences including ICRA and IROS, and has been featured in media worldwide including New York Times and the Telegraph. Jean has been leading a series of interdisciplinary events on AI/Robotics and Arts at Humanoids’25, ICRA’25, NeurIPS’24, NeurIPS’23, RSS’21, SIGGRAPH’21 and CVPR’21. Jean is currently Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics. Jean received a PhD from CMU, MS from Columbia University, and BS from Yonsei University.
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