Soheil Habibian
I am a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech, and a research assistant at Collab. My research interests include robot learning, human-robot collaboration, artificial intelligence, and robotics. I spent Spring 2023 as a research intern at Honda Research Institute working on modeling human cognitive states in hybrid mobility environments.
Previously, I did my masters in mechanical engineering at Bucknell University and worked on a research project, funded by Toyota Research Institute, that was focused on modeling and control of a flexible soft actuator for creating soft robotic arms.
I received my bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Qazvin Azad University in 2015. From 2011 to 2017, I was a research assistant and a lead engineer at the university’s SYNTECH Technology and Innovation Center. I worked on design and implementation of tele-operative response robots. Our team actively participated in RoboCup and was steadily ranked within the top 3 in Rescue Robot League organized by NIST.
news
| Jun 30, 2024 | Our recent work on waypoint-based reinforcement learning just got accepted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Check out the paper. |
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| Mar 26, 2024 | I am thrilled that our paper titled “Wrapping haptic displays around robot arms to communicate learning” has won the 2024 IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award. |
| Feb 11, 2023 | I am delighted to announce that I’ve been selected as an outstanding peer reviewer by the program committee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023. |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Our RA-L paper, “Encouraging Human Interaction with Robot Teams: Legible and Fair Subtask Allocations” got accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). |