Soheil Habibian

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I am a Virginia Tech Ph.D. graduate specializing in AI and robotics. My research interests include robot learning, human-robot collaboration, and artificial intelligence. 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.

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Oct 07, 2024 Excited to share our survey paper on closed-loop robot learning is now published in IJRR. Find the paper here.
Aug 10, 2024 I’m excited to announce that I’ve completed my PhD at Virginia Tech!
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.
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.