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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.

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News

  • [11/2024] Check out our newly released Tactile Skin Toolkits here!
  • [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.

Research Overview

research overview

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

chi2025

TelePulse: Enhancing the Teleoperation Experience through Biomechanical Simulation-Based Electrical Muscle Stimulation in Virtual Reality

S. Hwang; S. Kang; J. Oh; J. Park; S. Shin; Y. Luo; J. DelPreto; S. Lee; K. Lee; W. Matusik; D. Rus; S. Kim.
ACM CHI 2025. [Paper]

Best Paper Award

science2024

WiReSens Toolkit: An Open-source Platform towards Accessible Wireless Tactile Sensing

D. Murphy; P. Liang; W. Matusik; Y. Luo.
arXiv Preprint, 2024. [Paper] [Code]

science2024

3D-ViTac: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with Visuo-Tactile Sensing

B. Huang; Y. Wang; X. Yang; Y. Luo; Y. Li.
CoRL 2024. [Project Page]
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