Haptic Intelligence

Department Awards
Scientific Awards

2024

  • Ph.D. student Nataliya Rokhmanova is admitted to the workshop "Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering" held at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA
    Nataliya Rokhmanova
  • Ph.D. student Iris Andrussow wins the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Iris Andrussow
  • Ph.D. student Bernadett Kiss wins an honorable mention for the prize for best poster presentation at the 2024 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Bernadett Kiss
  • Postdoc Rachael Bevill Burns receives an honorable mention for the 2024 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize - More Information
    Rachael Burns
  • Postdoc Mayumi Mohan receives the prize for best presentation at the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart Summer Symposium for her talk "Crafting Motion: From Robotic to Expressive"
    Mayumi Mohan
  • Postdoc Mayumi Mohan and her team win the competition at MPG Career Evolution Games Week
    Mayumi Mohan
  • Ph.D. student Nataliya Rokhmanova is selected by the Max Planck Society to be a nominee for 2024 Schmidt Science Fellows program
    Nataliya Rokhmanova
  • Katherine J. Kuchenbecker debates on the Future of Robotics Research at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan - More Information
    Katherine Kuchenbecker
  • 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 - More Information
    Behnam Khojasteh Yitian Shao Katherine Kuchenbecker
  • Postdoc Andrew Schulz receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department - More Information
    Andrew Schulz
  • Former Postdoc Hasti Seifi wins an NSF CAREER Award titled “Democratizing Haptics: Enabling Novice Designers with Vibrotactile Models and Tools” - More Information
    Hasti Seifi

2023

  • Postdoc Giulia Ballardini is accepted to the Sign Up! Career-building Workshop for outstanding female postdocs in the MPG
    Giulia Ballardini
  • Part-time Research Scientist David Gueorguiev wins an ERC Starting grant at CNRS in Paris - More Information
    David Gueorguiev
  • Ph.D. student Yijie Gong and Guido Caccianiga win the top prize for best demonstration at the Stuttgart open house at the 2023 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Yijie Gong Guido Caccianiga
  • Ph.D. student Iris Andrussow wins the top prize for best demonstration at the Tübingen open house at the 2023 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Iris Andrussow
  • Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins an honorable mention for the prize for best demonstration at the Stuttgart open house at the 2023 IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Rachael Burns
  • Ph.D. student Yijie Gong wins a 500 USD travel grant to attend the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, England
    Yijie Gong
  • Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to participate in the RSS Pioneers 2023 Workshop - More Information
    Rachael Burns
  • Ph.D. student Nataliya Rokhmanova wins a 750 EUR travel grant to attend the 2023 CHI Doctoral Consortium in Hamburg, Germany
    Nataliya Rokhmanova
  • Former Ph.D. student Alexis Block is selected for the "Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI" seminar series organized by the Maryland Robotics Center
    Alexis Block
  • 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 Kuchenbecker

2022

2021

  • Katherine J. Kuchenbecker has been named an IEEE Fellow effective January 1, 2022, for contributions to interactive haptic systems and robotic touch perception - More Information
    Katherine Kuchenbecker
  • 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 - More Information
    Alexis Block
  • Postdoc Yitian Shao receives a two-year Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his postdoctoral research in the HI Department - More Information
    Yitian Shao
  • 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
    Yitian Shao
  • 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 - More Information
    Saekwang Nam Katherine Kuchenbecker
  • Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins Honorable Mention for Best Research Lightning Talk at the IMPRS-IS Boot Camp
    Rachael Burns
  • 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 - More Information
    Alexis Block Rachael Burns Mayumi Mohan
  • Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns wins first place at the HRI 2021 Student Elevator Pitch Competition - More Information
    Rachael Burns
  • Ph.D. student Rachael Bevill Burns is selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers 2021 Workshop - More Information
    Rachael Burns

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