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Education

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2026
  • GPA: 3.84/4.00
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, 2024
  • GPA: 3.86/4.00

Publications

LightTact: A Visual-Tactile Fingertip Sensor for Deformation-Independent Contact Sensing

Lin, C.^†; Huo, B.^†; Yu, M.; Ruppel, E.; Chen, B.; Francis, J.; Zhao, D. (2026). "LightTact: A Visual-Tactile Fingertip Sensor for Deformation-Independent Contact Sensing." Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2026). ^†Equal contribution.

LocoTouch: Learning Dynamic Quadrupedal Transport with Tactile Sensing

Lin, C.; Song, Y. R.; Huo, B.; Yu, M.; Wang, Y.; Liu, S.; Yang, Y.; Yu, W.; Zhang, T.; Tan, J.; Luo, Y.; Zhao, D. (2025). "LocoTouch: Learning Dynamic Quadrupedal Transport with Tactile Sensing." Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025), PMLR 305: 2779–2801.