Projects

Research on haptics, robotics, and human-computer interaction, newest first.

CHI 2027 · Submitted

TouchTwin

Turn a 30-second phone video into a touchable twin, then fix what feels wrong by typing what your hand tells you.

Ongoing project

Feeling What the Robot Touches

Estimating contact from tactile video and force, and rendering it to the operator's hand during teleoperation.

Ongoing project

Physically Grounded Material Diversity

Putting measured materials, not random friction values, into simulation, so robot hands learn how real surfaces grip, slide, and slip.

IEEE Haptics 2026Distinguished Paper Award

Language-Guided Multimodal Texture Authoring

Type “gritty but cushioned” and feel it: one prompt generates sliding vibration, tapping, and a matching visual.

ACM UIST 2024

SHAPE-IT

Authoring shape-changing behaviors on a 24 × 24 pin display through natural-language commands.

UIST 2024 Poster

Multimodal interaction with AI shape displays

An early look at SHAPE-IT: GPT-4 turns natural-language instructions into dynamic shapes on a pin-based display.

IEEE JSTARS 2022

Part-based object detection in remote sensing

A weakly supervised, part-based detector for combined objects in remote sensing images that needs less labeling.

IEEE ICRA 2022

GTGraffiti: spray painting with a cable robot

A cable-driven robot that reproduces human graffiti painting motions, from motion capture to spray paint.

CVPR Workshops 2021

LTNet: depth-guided image relighting

Transfers lighting from a reference image to a target image with depth guidance, for the NTIRE 2021 relighting challenge.

Stroke-optimized robotic calligraphy

Adapts the number of stroke control points to each character's complexity, so generated calligraphy follows the original more closely.