Aloha!

I am actively seeking Ph.D. position for Fall 2025!.

My name is Shengmiao (‘Samuel’) Jin, and I am currently an Undergraduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) majoring in Electrical Engineering. I am generally interested in Robotics, Tactile Sensing, Computer Vision, and their intersection in Tactile-informed Robot Manipulation tasks. My goal is to develop systems to help humans with common daily tasks that require the feeling of touch.

I am currently working in the RoboTouch Lab with Prof. Wenzhen Yuan on Dexterous Manipulation with Tactile Sensing. I have also worked on liquid manipulation, specifically, a pancake-making system that can make arbitrary shapes of pancakes. (We have very cool demos!) And several other projects in different fields of robotics. Please check out the publication page and my CV for more info!

Previously, I worked on Biomedical Image Processing while interning at a genetic company in Shenzhen in 2023. Even Earlier, I also briefly worked on a Neural Networks-based Unfolding Algorithm for Particle Physics at Tufts University during Summer 2020.

Outside of research, I also like to read, cook, travel, play, and watch sports(including esports).

Photo Credits: Amin; No UR5e Robots were harmed during the photo taken