Yitian Shao

Yitian Shao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. His research focuses on wearable technologies, haptic interfaces, augmented/virtual reality, and artificial tactile sensing. His long-term research goal is to create haptic feedback technologies that provide immersive experiences for users to touch and interact with objects in a virtual environment. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa...See more

Yitian Shao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. His research focuses on wearable technologies, haptic interfaces, augmented/virtual reality, and artificial tactile sensing. His long-term research goal is to create haptic feedback technologies that provide immersive experiences for users to touch and interact with objects in a virtual environment. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2020. He also earned an M.S. degree from UCSB in 2019. He received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Tianjin University, China, in 2013. He worked as a research intern at Microsoft Applied Sciences Group in 2019.His awards include Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers, EuroHaptics Society Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, UCSB ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, and several best paper awards and nominations at IEEE World Haptics and IEEE Haptic Symposium. His research has been published in top-tier journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Science Advances. The haptic technologies developed in his research resulted in three patents based on a filing supported in part by Facebook Reality Labs. See less