Department Awards
Scientific Awards
2024
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Behnam Khojasteh, Yitian Shao, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker win the Best ToH Short Paper Award for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2024 IEEE Haptics Symposium
Behnam Khojasteh Yitian Shao Katherine J. Kuchenbecker -
Postdoc Andrew Schulz receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department
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Andrew Schulz
2023
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Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to participate in the RSS Pioneers 2023 Workshop
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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for her contributions to the peer-review process of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
2022
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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is selected as an honoree of 35 Women in Robotics Engineering and Science (WiRES), announced at IROS
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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker participates in the Berlin Summit on Robotics 2022
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Ph.D. student Guido Caccianiga and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker are finalists for the Best Poster award at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics (HSMR)
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Alexis Block, Hasti Seifi, Sammy Christen, Bernard Javot, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker win Best Demo at EuroHaptics 2022 for their demonstration of "HuggieBot: a human-sized haptic interface"
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Postdoc Ravali Gourishetti and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win Honorable Mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2022 IEEE Haptics Symposium
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Former Ph.D. student Alexis Block is selected to receive the Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Medal for her doctoral dissertation; she is the first Ph.D. student from MPI-IS to win this prize from the new research direction of intelligent systems
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Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan wins third place at the HRI 2022 Student Elevator Pitch Competition
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Mayumi Mohan
2021
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Katherine J. Kuchenbecker has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 1, 2022, for contributions to interactive haptic systems and robotic touch perception
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Ph.D. student Alexis Block is selected as a 2021 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) to support her postdoctoral research with Veronica Santos at UCLA in the USA
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Postdoc Yitian Shao receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department
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Postdoc Yitian Shao wins the 2020 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; he earned his doctorate with Yon Visell at UCSB in the USA
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Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win Honorable Mention for their IEEE Transactions on Haptics short paper at the 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference
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Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Honorable Mention for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
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Ph.D. students Alexis Block, Rachael Bevill Burns, and Mayumi Mohan are selected to participate in the Gordon Research Seminar on the Future of Robotics: Possibilities for Transforming Healthcare
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Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins first place at the HRI 2021 Student Elevator Pitch Competition
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Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2021 Workshop
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Rachael Burns
2020
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Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam receives a KIST Europe Scholarship Award from the Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Germany
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Ph.D. student Saekwang Nam and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win the EuroHaptics 2020 Award for Best Poster
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Senior Research Scientist Ad Spiers receives an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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Adam Spiers
2019
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Postdocs David Gueorguiev and Hasti Seifi win a 9,500 USD grant from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society to create a hands-on, standalone teaching module on haptic devices
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Research Scientist Hyosang Lee, visiting Ph.D. student Kyungseo Park, Prof. Jung Kim of KAIST, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker jointly win the Best Poster Award at the 2019 IROS ROBOTAC workshop
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Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Second Place for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
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Stanford Ph.D. student Cara Nunez receives a ten-month DAAD scholarship to do research with the HI Department as a visiting Ph.D. student
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JHU Ph.D. student Neha Thomas receives a ten-month Fulbright grant to do research with the HI Department as a visiting Ph.D. student
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Korea University Ph.D. students Jeong-Hyun Cho and Young-Eun Lee each receive a six-month grant to do research with the HI Department as a visiting Ph.D. student
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Postdoc Yasemin Vardar wins the 2018 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; she earned her doctorate with Cagatay Basdogan at Koc University in Turkey
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Ph.D. students Alexis Block and Maria-Paola Forte win ROSCon 2019 diversity scholarships
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Alexis Block Maria Paola Forte
2018
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Ph.D. student Mayumi Mohan is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2019 Workshop
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Ph.D. student Alexis Block wins a 2,500 USD research grant from the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics
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Postdoc Yasemin Vardar is selected to participate in the MPG's Sign up! career-building program
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Postdoc Hasti Seifi wins the 2017 EuroHaptics Society prize for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of haptics; she earned her doctorate with Karon MacLean at UBC in Canada
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Visiting Professor Brent Gillespie receives a Humbold Research Award
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Postdoc Hyosang Lee is selected to participate in the RSS Pioneers 2018 Workshop
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Postdoc Hyosang Lee receives a fellowship from the South Korean National Research Foundation to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department
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Postdoc Hasti Seifi receives a two-year fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to support her postdoctoral research in the HI Department
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Rachael L'Orsa receives a four-month DAAD scholarship to visit the HI Department
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Alexis Block is elected as co-general chair of the HRI Pioneers 2019 Workshop
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Alexis Block
2017
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Alexis Block is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2018 Workshop
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A paper by Ph.D. student Eric Young and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is a finalist for the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE World Haptics Conference
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Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to receive a grant from the Whitaker International Program to do research with the HI Department
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Rachael Burns