2025 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation
Wenzhen Yuan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States of America For innovative contributions to high-resolution robotic tactile sensing. Wenzhen Yuan is an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the director of the RoboTouch Lab. She is the leading researcher who brought the high- resolution tactile sensing to robotics, and her work laid the foundations of high-resolution tactile sensing. Dr. Yuan’s career goal is to pioneer new frontiers in robotic tactile sensing, and her exploration has ranged from creating new hardware, sensor modeling, signal processing, and perception models. Dr. Yuan’s contributions have significantly advanced robot capabilities in challenging perception and manipulation tasks, influencing both academia and industry. Her research continues to push the boundaries of robotic sensing. Yuan received her Master of Science and PhD degrees from MIT and her Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University. She also worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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