Principal Investigator

Yitian Shao

Prof. Dr. Yitian Shao directs the HUMIT Lab at the International Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ). He is a member of the State Key Laboratory of Smart Farm Technologies and Systems, China. He is also affiliated with the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Research Center at the School of Computer Science and Technology at HITSZ. He has long been engaged in research on haptics, robotic tactile sensing, and wearable technologies. From 2022 to 2023, he worked as a junior professor (W1) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. He was also associated with the Cluster of Excellence, Center for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (CeTI) and 6G-life research hub in Germany. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems from 2021 to 2022, and was awarded with Humboldt Research Fellowship. In 2020, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, US, and won the EuroHaptics Society Best PhD Thesis Award. In 2019, he worked as an intern researcher at Microsoft Research Institute in the US. In 2013, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Tianjin University, China.