Ruohan Zhang (张若涵)
I am Ruohan Zhang (张若涵), a Ph.D. student in Robotics at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Wenzhen Yuan in the RoboTouch Lab.
My research lies at the intersection of robot perception, tactile sensing, and manipulation. I believe tactile perception is a powerful way to understand the physical world—from object properties to contact dynamics—and I am working towards stable and generalizable manipulation for robotics. I design and study tactile sensors and their integration into robotic end-effectors, with the goal of enabling robots to interact delicately and intelligently with their environment.
Research Interests
- Tactile sensing and perception for understanding the physical world
- Stable and generalizable robotic manipulation
- Contact-rich interaction and active perception
Publications
FruitTouch: A Perceptive Gripper for Gentle and Scalable Fruit Harvesting
2026, IEEE, Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Requirement-Driven Design of Whole-Body Social Tactile Sensing via Virtual Human-Robot Interaction
2026, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
PneuGelSight: Soft Robotic Vision-Based Proprioception and Tactile Sensing
2025, Sage, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (2023–present)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) - M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2025)
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC) - B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and Information Science (2019–2023)
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) — Guo Moruo Scholarship (highest honor for undergraduates, ~one per major)
Contact
- CV: Download CV (PDF)
- Email: rz21@illinois.edu
- GitHub: rhzhang-ustc
- LinkedIn: Ruohan Zhang
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