Matteo Bianchi

Matteo Bianchi received the B.S degree cum laude and the M.S cum laude in biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2004 and 2007, respectively and the PhD in automatics, robotics and bioengineering from the University of Pisa in 2012. Currently, he is working as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Advanced Robotics Department (ADVR) of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and as a collaborator of the Research Center “E. Piaggio” of the University of Pisa. From January to June 2011, he worked as visiting student at the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He is an author of contributions to international conferences and journals. In 2010 he was finalist for the Best Student Paper and Best Paper Award at the IEEE Haptics Symposium in Boston (US- MA) and in 2012 he was awarded with the JCTF novel technology paper award at the IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference in Villamoura, Portugal. His research interests include haptic interfaces, medical robotics, tactile interaction modeling, tactile feedback for prosthetic applications, psychophysics of the sense of touch and human manipulation, optimal hand pose sensing and tracking.