Jessica Yin
Email: jessicayin98 AT gmail DOT com
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Meta FAIR with the Embodied AI/Robotics team. My research focuses on tactile sensing for dexterous robot manipulation, with a special interest in how advancements in both sensor design and robot control frameworks can be leveraged together for human-like robot dexterity.
I completed my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania GRASP Lab and my BS at Carnegie Mellon University. During my PhD, I was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and interned at Toyota Research Institute and Meta FAIR.
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OSMO: An Open-Source Tactile Glove for Cross-Embodiment Learning
Learning In-Hand Traslation Using Tactile Skin with Shear and Normal Force Sensing
Jessica Yin, Haozhi Qi, Jitendra Malik, James Pikul, Mark Yim, and Tess Hellebrekers
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025
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Proximity and Visuotactile Point Cloud Fusion for Contact Patches in Extreme Deformation
Jessica Yin, Paarth Shah, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Andrew Beaulieu, Avinash Uttamchandani, Alejandro Castro, James Pikul, and Russ Tedrake
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025
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Wearable Soft Technologies for Haptic Sensing and Feedback
Jessica Yin, Ronan Hinchet, Herbert Shea, Carmel Majidi
Advanced Functional Materials 2021
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Closing the Loop with Liquid-Metal Sensing Skin for Autonomous Soft Robot Gripping
Jessica Yin, Tess Hellebrekers, and Carmel Majidi
IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) 2020
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Towards an AI-driven soft toy for automatically detecting and classifying infant-toy interactions using optical force sensors
Rithwik Udayagi, Jessica Yin, Xinyao Cai, William Townsend, Varun Trivedi, Rohan Shende, O. Francis Sowande, Laura Prosser, James Pikul, and Michelle Johnson
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2024
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Steerable Tape-Spring Needle for Autonomous Sharp Turns Through Tissue
Omar Abdoun, Devin Tjandra, Katie Yin, Pablo Kurzan, Jessica Yin, and Mark Yim
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025
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Electroadhesive Clutches for Programmable Shape Morphing of Soft Actuators
Gregory M. Campbell, Jessica Yin, James Pikul, and Mark Yim
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022
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Contact force estimation from deformation of surface
Kyung Eun Kim, Jessica Yin, Gregory M. Campbell, James Pikul, and Christain Santangelo
APS March Meeting 2022
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Real-Time Visualization of Neural Network Training to Supplement Machine Learning Education
Michael You and Jessica Yin
IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) 2019
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Liquid Metal-Microelectronics Integration for a Sensorized Soft Robot Skin
Tess Hellebrekers, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz, Jessica Yin, and Carmel Majidi
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2024.
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2025
Invited Speaker and Panelist at RSS 2025 Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation2024
Started Postdoc at Meta FAIR2023
Patent filed with University of Pennsylvania2022
Best Student Paper Award at IEEE RoboSoft