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Email: yiyueluo@uw.edu

Yiyue Luo

I am an Assistant Professor at University of Washington ECE. I received my Ph.D. degree in EECS from MIT in 2024, advised by Professor Wojciech Matusik and Professor Tomas Palacios. Before joining MIT, I received my B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Professor John A. Roger. My research interests lie at the intersection of digital fabrication, human-computer/robot interaction, and applied machine learning.

I am actively recruiting undergraduate and graduate researchers. If you're interested, feel free to shoot me an email! For PhD students, please apply to UW ECE PhD program (due in December 2024) and mention my name in your application. For undergraduate researchers, visiting students, and interns, please fill out this form.

News

  • [09/2024] Check out the Wearable Intelligence Lab website here!
  • [09/2024] Super excited to join the University of Washington (UW) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) as an Assistant Professor.
  • [08/2024] We are hosting a workshop at UIST 2024. Feel free to preregister here!
  • [12/2023] I've been awarded Science - Forbes 30 Under 30 North America 2024.

Research Overview

research overview

Publications (show selected / show by date / show by topic)

science2024

Intelligent Textiles Are Looking Bright

Y. Li; Y. Luo.
Science 384, 29-30, 2024. [Paper]
NC2024

Adaptive Tactile Interaction Transfer via Digitally Embroidered Smart Gloves

Y. Luo; C. Liu; Y. Lee, J. DelPreto; K. Wu; M. Foshey; D. Rus; T. Palacios; Y. Li; A. Torralba; W. Matusik.
Nature Communications 15, 868, 2024. [Project Page] [Paper]

Selected as Editors' Highlights. Covered by [MIT news] [Scientific American].

ICRA2024_BDAI

Tactile Embeddings for Multi-Task Learning

Y. Luo; M. Wonsick; J. Hodgins; B. Okorn.
ICRA 2024. [Paper]
ICRA2024_EIT

Liquids Identification and Manipulation via Digitally Fabricated Impedance Sensors

J. Zhu*; Y. Lee*; Y. Luo*; T. Xu; C. Liu; D. Rus; S. Mueller; W. Matusik.
ICRA 2024. [Paper]
UIST2023

MagKnitic: Machine-knitted Passive and Interactive Haptic Textiles with Integrated Binary Sensing

Y. Luo; J. Zhu; K. Wu; C. Honnet; S Mueller; W. Matusik.
UIST 2023. [Project Page] [Paper]
NeurIPS22

ActionSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Recording Framework for Human Activities Using Wearable Sensors in a Kitchen Environment

J. DelPreto*; C. Liu*; Y. Luo; M. Foshey; Y. Li; A. Torralba; W. Matusik; D. Rus.
NeurIPS 2022. [Project Page] [Paper]

CHI2022

Digital Fabrication of Pneumatic Actuators with Integrated Sensing by Machine Knitting

Y. Luo; K. Wu; A. Spielberg; M. Foshey; T. Palacios; D. Rus; W. Matusik.
ICRA2022

An Integrated Design Pipeline for Tactile Sensing Robotic Manipulators

L. Zlokapa; Y. Luo; J. Xu; M. Foshey; K. Wu; P. Agrawal; W. Matusik.

ICRA 2022. [Project Page] [Paper]

Covered by [MIT news].

IROS2021

Dynamic Modeling of Hand-Object Interactions via Tactile Sensing

Q. Zhang*; Y. Li*; Y. Luo; W. Shou; M. Foshey; J. Yan; J. B. Tenenbaum; W. Matusik; A. Torralba.
IROS 2021. [Project Page]
CVPR2021

Intelligent Carpet: Inferring 3D Human Pose from Tactile Signals

Y. Luo; Y. Li; M. Foshey; W. Shou; P. Sharma; T. Palacios; A. Torralba; W. Matusik.
CVPR 2021. [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]

Covered by [MIT news] [Fast Company] [ZDNet].

NE2021

Learning human-environment interactions using conformal tactile textiles

Y. Luo; Y. Li; P. Sharma; W. Shou; K. Wu; M. Foshey; B. Li; T. Palacios; A. Torralba; W. Matusik.
Nature Electronics, 4, 193–201, 2021. [Project page] [Paper (External link)] [Dataset] [Code]

Selected as cover. Commentary in Nature Electronics (link). Covered by [MIT news] [Engadget].

CHI2021

KnitUI: Fabricating Interactive and Sensing Textiles with Machine Knitting

Y. Luo*; K. Wu*; T. Palacios; W. Matusik.
ACM CHI 2021. [Project page] [Paper]

Best Paper Honorable Mention Award