Awards & Talks
Honors, fellowships, and invited talks. Full CV (PDF) ↗
Awards & Fellowships
- 2025
Outstanding Achievement in Robotics Sustainability Leadership
Laboratory of Sustainability Robotics, awarded at 2025 European Robotics Forum · Stuttgart, Germany
- 2025
RoboSoft Rising Star Award
IEEE RoboSoft 2025 · Lausanne, Switzerland
- 2025
Best Poster Award — Tumblerbots: Underwater Monitoring with Tumbling Robotic Sensors
IEEE RoboSoft HARDER Workshop (Soft Robotics for Humanitarian Assistance, Reconnaissance, Disasters, Exploration, and Recovery)
- 2025
General Chair — RSS Pioneers Workshop
Robotics: Science and Systems · Los Angeles, USA
- 2024
RSS Pioneers Fellowship
Robotics: Science and Systems · Delft, Netherlands
- 2024
Biomimicry Launchpad Cohort Fellowship
Biomimicry Institute · USA
- 2024
Best Paper Finalist — Excellence in Manufacturing Reproducibility
IEEE RoboSoft 2024 — Hybrid Soft Electrostatic Metamaterial Gripper for Multi-surface, Multi-object Adaption
- Fall 2019
ASU Block Grant University Graduate Fellowship
Arizona State University
Merit-based fellowship for highly qualified PhD students
- Fall 2016 – 2020
Graduate Research Assistantship
Arizona State University
- Fall 2013 – 2015
MSc Consortium Scholarship
ERASMUS European Master on Advanced Robotics (EMARO)
- Fall 2009 – 2013
Full-time BSc Scholarship
Asian Institute of Technology
50% AIT academic scholarship
Invited Talks & Seminars
2026
- Mar 17, 2026
MIE1299H — Special Topics in Bioinspired Robotics (course seminar)
University of Toronto · Toronto, Canada seminar
Soft Aerial
- Mar 4–6, 2026
Sustainable Soft Aerial Robotics for Climate and Conservation
AMME Recruitment Research Seminar, University of Sydney · Sydney, Australia seminar
Soft AerialTransient
- Feb 10–12, 2026
Sustainable Soft Aerial Robotics for Climate and Conservation
AMLD Intelligence Summit 2026 · Lausanne, Switzerland invited talk
Soft AerialTransient
- Jan 29, 2026
Sustainable Soft Aerial Robotics for Climate and Conservation
11th R&D Conference 2026 — Swissmem · Zurich, Switzerland invited talk
Soft AerialTransient
- Jan 10–16, 2026
Sustainable Soft Aerial Robotics for Climate and Conservation (talk + poster)
Robotics Gordon Research Seminar and Conference · Ventura, CA, USA invited talk
Soft AerialTransient
2025
- Aug 4, 2025
Learning from Nature for Nature: Physically Intelligent Robots for Human-Robot-Environment Interaction
Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX, USA invited talk
Soft AerialTransient
- Aug 12, 2025
Sustainable Soft Aerial Robotics for Climate and Conservation (poster)
Shaping the Future: ETH Domain Conference · Lausanne, Switzerland invited talk
Soft AerialTransient
- Jul 24, 2025
Sustainable Aerial Robots
Imperial Robotics Summer School, Imperial College London · London, UK keynote
Soft AerialTransient
- 2025
Benchmarking in Soft Robotics — Actuation Workshop Moderator
IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft) · Lausanne, Switzerland workshop
Other Soft
2024
- Oct 12, 2024
Using Robotics to Tackle Water and Flooding Challenges (panelist)
Workshop panel
TransientAerial-Aquatic
- Aug 22, 2024
Soft Aerial-Aquatic Perching
Zürich Hardware Meetup — Hardware for Good, Switzerland Innovation Park · Zurich, Switzerland invited talk
Soft AerialAerial-Aquatic
- Jul 11, 2024
Untethered Metamorphic Soft Aerial Robots for Adaptive Perching
SoftLab Seminar — Bristol Robotics Lab · Bristol, UK seminar
Soft Aerial
- 2024
Crash Landing On To "You" — Untethered Metamorphic Soft Aerial Robots for Multi-Modal Adaptive Perching
RSS Pioneers Workshop, Robotics: Science and Systems invited talk
Soft Aerial
- 2024
Aerial-Aquatic Robots as a New Paradigm for Blue Carbon Monitoring and Sequestration
ICUAS '24 — Session: Aerial Vehicles for Hazardous Applications invited talk
Aerial-AquaticTransient
2023
- Apr 11, 2023
Physical Artificial Intelligence and the Development of Adaptable Soft Robots
PetroVietnam University · Vung Tau, Vietnam seminar
Soft Aerial
- Apr 11, 2023
Soft and Transient Aerial Robotics (with F. Wiesemuller)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) — with Prof. K. Jimmy Hsia, Mingchao Liu, Yifan Wang · Singapore seminar
Soft AerialTransient
- 2023
Physical Artificial Intelligence in Untethered Soft Aerial Robots for Safe Environmental Interaction and Perching
Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting & Exhibit — Symposium SF06 invited talk
Soft Aerial
2022
- Jul 19, 2022
Multidisciplinary for life-like robots — Seminar on Soft Robotics
VinUniversity · Hanoi, Vietnam seminar
Soft Aerial
2021
- 2021
Embodied Intelligence in Reconfigurable Tree-Hugging Robots
International Workshop on Embodied Intelligence invited talk
Soft Aerial