People


Alumni

Katherine Kuchenbecker

Katherine Kuchenbecker

GRASP Faculty Member until '18

Katherine researches the design and control of robotic systems that enable a user to touch virtual objects and distant environments as though they were real and within reach. These haptic interfaces combine electromechanical sensors and actuators with high-speed computer control to fool the human sense of touch. By studying applications such as robot-assisted surgery, tablet computers, stroke rehabilitation, and personal robots, Katherine seeks to improve our understanding of haptic feedback and uncover new opportunities for its use in interactions between humans, computers, and machines.
Dr. Katherine Kuchenbecker left Penn in 2018, to see more information about her new position visit: https://hi.is.mpg.de/person/kjk

News

Faculty News

Q&A with Katherine Kuchenbecker

November 2, 2010


Ph.D. Students

Freddy Hernandez

Robotics MSE


Runhua Zhang

Robotics MSE


Research Staff

Jeremy Wang

Robotics MSE '16 - Associate Director, PERCH Design and Fabrication Facility


Alumni

Bahram Banisadr

Robotics MSE '16 - Senior Product Manager, Amazon


Alexis E. Block

Robotics MSE '17- Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University


Jeremy Brown

PostDoc, MEAM '17 - John C. Malone Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University


Alex Burka

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, ESE '18 - Robotics Engineer, Exyn Technologies


Heather Culbertson

PhD, MEAM '15 - Assistant Professor, University of Southern California


Kent Devillafranca

Robotics MSE '14


Elaida Dimwamwa

Robotics MSE '17 - PhD. Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology


Naomi Fitter

Robotics MSE '15; PhD, MEAM '17 - Assistant Professor, Oregon State University


Lindsay Gardner

Robotics MSE '18 - Apple


Stuart Helgeson

Robotics MSE '16 - Mechanical Engineer, Bigfoot Biomedical


Siyao (Nick) Hu

PhD, MEAM '20 - Amazon Robotics


Jennifer Hui

Robotics MSE '16


Mayumi Mohan

Robotics MSE '16 - PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute


Conor O’Brien

Robotics MSE '15 - Engineer, Otherlab


Folasade Oba

Robotics MSE '16 - XEED, LLC


Yousi (Josey) Oquendo

Robotics MSE '16 - Stanford Health Care


Claudio Pacchierotti

PostDoc, 2014


Rebecca Pierce

PhD, MEAM '15 - Assistant Professor, Boston University


Sabaritha Shilpa Sekar

Robotics MSE '16 - Computer Vision Software Engineer, Oculus VR


Heather Williams

Robotics MSE '15 - Senior Data Scientist, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine


Taniel S. Winner

Robotics MSE '16 - PhD Candidate, Georgia Institute of Technology


Brian James Wright

Robotics MSE '17 - Lauterbach Engineering


Catherine Yee

Robotics MSE '17


Eric Young

PhD, MEAM '20 - Software Engineer, Bright Machines


Katherine Kuchenbecker