Aloha! Welcome to my home page!

About Me

My name is Shengmiao (‘Samuel’) Jin, and I am an Incoming Robotics Ph.D. Student (in the Field of Computer Science) at Cornell University. I graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. During my time at UIUC, I was fortunate to work in the RoboTouch Lab with Prof. Wenzhen Yuan .

Research Interests

I am passionate about:

• 🤖 Dexterous Manipulation
• 🖐️ Tactile Sensing
• 🧠 Robot Learning
• ⚙️ Model-based Control

My goal is to develop systems to help humans with complex daily tasks that require the feeling of touch.

Past Research

During my wonderful time at UIUC as an undergrad, I worked on these following projects:

• Food (pancake batter) manipulation
• Active Haptic Perception
• Tactile Representation Learning

Check out my publications and CV for more details!

Personal Interests

Outside of research, I enjoy:

• 📚 Reading
• 🍳 Cooking
• ✈️ Traveling
• 🎮 Playing and watching sports (including esports)

Photo Credits: Leo Luo; No UR5e Robots were harmed during the photo taken (in fact it was already broken :) )