You can download my resume here (last update: May, 2023).
You can send email to zhaoyuanma23(at)gmail.com for more information.

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/*** Research Interests ***/
Robotics, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

/*** Experience ***/

  • August 2018 - Now, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, PhD candidate, Robotics Engineering program.
  • Sept. 2015 - July 2018, Microsoft Research Asia, Software Engineer, Robotics group, focus on robot prototyping and programming robot action by using vision. Supervised by Dr. Katsushi Ikeuchi.
  • May 2013 - Sept. 2015, Microsoft Research Asia, Hardware Engineer, HCI group, focus on haptic devices.
  • Nov. 2012 - May 2013, Microsoft Research Asia, Internship, HCI group, supervised by Prof. Hong Z. Tan, focus on haptic devices and tangible interaction.
  • Sept. 2011 - May, 2013, Beijing Institute of Technology, Master student, Electronic and Communication Engineering.
  • July 2011 - Aug. 2011, North Carolina State University, Visiting student.
  • Sept. 2007 - June 2011, Beijing Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering.

/*** Publications ***/
Please see Google Scholar for the latest publications.

  1. Zhaoyuan Ma, Jing Xiao, Robotic Perception-motion Synergy for Novel Rope Wrapping Tasks, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.

  2. Zhaoyuan Ma, Xiangrui Zeng, Using GPU to Accelerate Backward Induction for Vehicle Speed Optimal Control, WCX SAE World Congress Experience, 2022.

  3. Shang Gao†, Zhaoyuan Ma†, Ryosuke Tsumura, Jakub Kaminski, Loris Fichera, Haichong K Zhang, Augmented immersive telemedicine through camera view manipulation controlled by head motions, Medical Imaging 2021: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 2021.
    †These two authors contributed equally.

  4. Katsushi Ikeuchi, Zhaoyuan Ma, Zengqiang Yan, Shunsuke Kudoh, Minako Nakamura, Describing Upper-Body Motions Based on Labanotation for Learning-from-Observation Robots, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2018, 10.1007/s11263-018-1123-1. PDF

  5. Zhaoyuan Ma, Darren Edge, Leah Findlater and Hong Z. Tan, Haptic keyclick feedback improves typing speed and reduces typing errors on a flat keyboard, Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC 2015) – The 6th Joint Eurohaptics Conference and IEEE Haptics Symposium, Evanston, Illinois, USA, pp. 220-227, June 22-26, 2015. PDF

/*** Teaching ***/

  • RBE 3001/3002 Unified Robotics III/IV, Spring 2023, TA with Prof. Siavash Farzan and Prof. William Michalson.
  • RBE 501 Robot Dynamics, Spring 2022, TA with Prof. Loris Fichera.
  • CS/RBE 549 Computer Vision, Fall 2021, TA with Prof. Michael A. Gennert.
  • RBE 3001/3002 Unified Robotics III/IV, Spring 2020, TA with Prof. Loris Fichera and Prof. William Michalson.
  • RBE 3001/3002 Unified Robotics III/IV, Fall 2019, TA with Prof. Mohammad Mahdi Agheli Hajiabadi and Prof. William Michalson.
  • RBE 3001/3002 Unified Robotics III/IV, Spring 2019, TA with Prof. Loris Fichera and Prof. Carlo Pinciroli.

/*** Demos ***/

  1. Zhaoyuan Ma, Shang Gao, Hanshen Yu, Haichong (Kai) Zhang, “Augmented Immersive Telepresence through Camera View Manipulation Controlled by Head Motions”, presented at “Launching to a robotic future”, WPI Robotics Engineering 10-Year Anniversary Research Symposium, October 22, 2019.
  2. “Automatic Description of Human Motion and Its Reproduction by Robot Based on Labanotation” was showed at 2017 MSRA academic day.
  3. “Programming robots by observation” was shown to Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Satya Nadella at TechFest 2016 of Microsoft.
  4. Zhaoyuan Ma, Yukang Yan, Darren Edge, Hong Z. Tan, Yuanchun Shi, and Ed Colgate, “eClover: A Combined Electrostatic and Four-Tactor Wearable System for Eyes-Free Interactions”, hands-on demo presented at IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC 2015) - The 6th Joint Eurohaptics Conference and IEEE Haptics Symposium, Evanston, Illinois, USA, June 22-26, 2015.

/*** Patents ***/

  1. Hong Z. Tan, Zhaoyuan Ma. PASSIVE HAPTICS AS REFERENCE FOR ACTIVE HAPTICS. WO/2016/206069, published 12/29/2016, filed 06/26/2015.
  2. Hong Z. Tan, Zhaoyuan Ma & Chen Zhao. LOCALIZED KEY-CLICK FEEDBACK. WO/2014/186428, published 11/20/2014, filed 05/14/2014.

/*** Softwares ***/

  • FutabaServo: A Windows configuration tool for Futaba digital servo (RS303 & RS304).
  • yumi: Modified based on kth-ros-pkg/yumi to control ABB YuMi robot under ROS Noetic (branch: noetic, and branch: bimanual_rws for bimanual control).