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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Haptics\, Physical Processes\, and Emerging Tech
 nologies
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Yon Visell\, RE Touch Lab\, College of Engineering\, Dep
 artment of Mechanical Engineering\, University of California\, Santa Barba
 ra (UCSB)\nAbstract: I will describe ongoing research from my lab explorin
 g intersecting physical processes\, material technologies\, and capabiliti
 es of both engineered and biological systems.  Much of our research conce
 rns human haptic abilities\, which are central to human abilities to physi
 cally interact with their surroundings.  I will describe insights about h
 uman haptics that we have derived from empirical and theoretical studies o
 f mechanics. I will also describe recent research projects that exploit ph
 ysical processes and material attributes in the engineering of technologie
 s\, devices\, and systems for haptics\, sensing\, and robotics.\n\nBiograp
 hy: Yon Visell is Associate Professor at the University of California\, Sa
 nta Barbara\, where he is appointed in the Biological Engineering Program\
 , Department of Mechanical Engineering\, Department of Electrical and Comp
 uter Engineering (by courtesy)\, and Media Arts and Technology Program (by
  courtesy). His academic interests include haptics\, soft robotics\, emerg
 ing material technologies\, extended reality\, and intelligent systems.  
 He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill U
 niversity\, and completed a postdoc at the Institute for Intelligent Syst
 ems and Robotics Sorbonne University. His prior degrees are in physics. Pr
 ior to his PhD studies\, Visell spent several years in industry\, includin
 g a role developing DSP algorithms for Ableton Live.  Through several Eur
 opean organizations\, including the experimental studio that he co-founded
 \, he developed technological artworks that exhibited at prominent cultur
 al institutions around the world.  Dr. Visell has published more than 85 
 scientific works.  His lab has received a half-dozen awards and many more
  honorable mentions for work presented at prominent academic conferences. 
 Visell received a Google Faculty Research Award in 2016\, a Hellman Family
  Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 2017\, and a US National Science Foundat
 ion CAREER award in 2018.  Visell served as General Co-Chair of the 2022 
 and 2024 IEEE Haptics Symposium.
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