G. Mamillapalli#, R. Rosenkranz#, R. Kirchner, I. Zozulia, E. Altinsoy, Y. Shao#, Influence of Design Parameters on the Physical and Perceptual Performance of Soft Liquid Dielectric Actuators, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2026.

F. Liu, Y. Shao#, M. Chen# Generative design strategies for additive manufacturing of lattice structures: A review, Materials & Design, 2026.

N. Tummala, G. Reardon, B. Dandu, Y. Shao, H.P. Saal, Y. Visell, Biomechanical filtering supports efficient tactile encoding in the human hand, Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2026.

Y. Shao*, A. Shagan Shomron*, B. Javot, C. Keplinger#, K. J. Kuchenbecker#, Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025. (Journal cover)

A. Shagan Shomron, C. Chase-Markopoulou, J. R. Walter, J. Sellhorn-Timm, Y. Shao, T. Nadler, A. Benson, I. Wochner, E. H. Rumley, I. Wurster, P. Klocke, D. Weiß, S. Schmitt, C. Keplinger#, D. Häufle#, A Robotic and Virtual Testing Platform for Evaluating Wearable Devices for Wrist Tremor Suppression, Device (Cell Press), 2025.

Z. Liu, Y. Shao, Q. Li, J. Su, Transformer-Based Material Recognition via Short-Time Contact Sensing, Pattern Recognition, 2025.

B. Khojasteh, Y. Shao, K. J. Kuchenbecker, Robust Surface Recognition with the Maximum Mean Discrepancy: Degrading Haptic-Auditory Signals through Bandwidth and Noise, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2024. (Best IEEE Transactions on Haptics Short Paper Award)

Y. Sung, R. Kim, K. W. Song, Y. Shao, S. H. Yoon, HapticPilot: Authoring In-Situ Hand Posture-Adaptive Vibrotactile Feedback for Virtual Reality, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2024.

T. Hachisu, G. Reardon, Y. Shao, K. Suzuki, Y. Visell, Interpersonal Transmission of Vibrotactile Feedback via Smart Bracelets: Mechanics and Perception, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2023.

G. Reardon, B. Dandu, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Shear Shockwaves Mediate Haptic Holography via Focused Ultrasound, Science Advances, 2023.

Y. Peng, C. M. Serfass, A. Kawazoe, Y. Shao, K. Gutierrez, C. N. Hill, V. J. Santos, Y. Visell, L. C. Hsiao, Elastohydrodynamic Friction of Robotic and Human Fingers on Soft Micropatterned Substrates, Nature Materials, 2021.

Y. Shao, V. Hayward, Y. Visell, Compression of Dynamic Tactile Information in the Human Hand, Science Advances, 2020.

Y. Shao, H. Hu, Y. Visell, A Wearable Tactile Sensing Array for Large-Area Remote Vibration Capture in the Hand, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020.

S. Biswas, Y. Shao, T. Hachisu, T. Nguyen-Dang, Y. Visell, Integrated Soft Optoelectronics for Wearable Health Monitoring, Advanced Materials Technologies, 2020.

B. Dandu, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Rendering Spatiotemporal Haptic Effects via the Physics of Waves in the Skin, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2020.

Y. Shao, V. Hayward, Y. Visell, Spatial Patterns of Cutaneous Vibration During Whole-Hand Haptic Interactions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016.

Y. Wu, S. Hou, H. Zheng, Y. Li, W. Lu, X. Zhou, Y. Shao, TranTac: leveraging transient tactile signals for contact-rich robotic manipulation, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.

C. Zhang, X. Zhou, Y. Shao, J. Luo Adjacency-aware deep reinforcement learning for centralized vehicle repositioning, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2026.

W. Tan, Y. Shao, Distributed Contact Sensing Enabled by Vibration Propagation on Robot End-Effector, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.

S. Ying-Lei, D. Tang, W. Hu, S. H. Yoon, Y. Shao, VibWalk: Mapping Lower-limb Haptic Experiences of Everyday Walking, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), 2025.

N. Tummala, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Spatiotemporal Organization of Touch Information in Tactile Neuron Population Responses, Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2023.

B. Khojasteh, Y. Shao, K. J. Kuchenbecker, Surface Perception through Haptic-Auditory Contact Data, Embracing Contacts - Workshop at ICRA, 2023.

Y. Sung, Y. Shao, R. Kim, S. H. Yoon, Exploring Vibration Intensity Map of Hand Postures for Haptic Rendering in XR, 28th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2022. (Best In-Person Poster/Demo Award)

Y. Shao, S. Ma, S. H. Yoon, Y. Visell, J. Holbery, SurfaceFlow: Large Area Haptic Display via Compliant Liquid Dielectric Actuators, Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2020.

T. Hachisu, G. Reardon, Y. Shao, K. Suzuki, Y. Visell, Interpersonal Vibrotactile Feedback via Waves Transmitted Through the Skin: Mechanics and Perception, Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2020.

G. Reardon, N. Kastor, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Elastowave: Localized Tactile Feedback in a Soft Haptic Interface via Focused Elastic Waves, Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2020. (Best Paper Award)

B. Dandu*, Y. Shao*, A. Stanley, Y. Visell, Spatiotemporal Haptic Effects from a Single Actuator via Spectral Control of Cutaneous Wave Propagation, Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, 2019. (*Contributed equally) (Best Student Paper Award Finalist + Best Technical Demonstration Award)

G. Reardon, Y. Shao, B. Dandu, W. Frier, B. Long, O. Georgiou, Y. Visell, Cutaneous Wave Propagation Shapes Tactile Motion: Evidence from Air-Coupled Ultrasound, Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, 2019.

T. Hachisu, Y. Shao, K. Suzuki, Y. Visell, Empirical Study on Transfer Functions from Wrists to Hands, IEEE World Haptics Conference, Work-in-Progress, 2019.

H. Schäfer, Z. Wells, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Transfer Properties of Touch Elicited Waves: Effect of Posture and Contact Conditions, Proc. IEEE World Haptics Conference, 2017.

Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Learning Constituent Parts of Touch Stimuli from Whole Hand Vibrations, Proc. IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2016. (Best Paper Award Runner Up)

M. Chartier, N. Thomas, Y. Shao, Y. Visell, Toward a Wearable Tactile Sensory Amplification Device: Transfer Characteristics and Optimization, IEEE Haptics Symposium, Work-in-Progress, 2016. (Best Paper Award, Work-in-Progress Category)

M.E. Altinsoy, P.A. Romeo, C. Böhmer, C. Cherif, G. Cuniberti, A. Ganguly, S. Groß, S. Haddadin, S. Huang, T. Hulin, G. Mamillapalli, A. Nag, S. Nuthalapati, L. Riemenschneider, R. Rosenkranz, Y. Shao, H. Singh, A. Swikir, G. Uhlig, M. Warncke, G.A. Whitaker, H. Winger, Sensors and actuators - new materials and technologies. , Academic Press, 2026. (Humans, Robots, and Virtual Worlds in the Tactile Internet Chapter 18)

Y. Shao, Tactile Sensing, Information, and Feedback via Wave Propagation, Springer, Cham, 2022. (Part of the Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems book series)