Aloha! Welcome to my home page!

About Me

My name is Shengmiao (‘Samuel’) Jin, and I am an first-year Robotics Ph.D. Student at Cornell Bowers College of CIS. I am currently co-advised by Professor Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee and Professor Preston Culbertson. My research interest lies in the intersection of Dexterous Manipulation, Tactile Sensing and Robot Learning.

Prior to Cornell, I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in May 2025. During my time at UIUC, I was fortunate to work in the RoboTouch Lab with Prof. Wenzhen Yuan .

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 :) )