Claudio Pacchierotti

Contact Email : claudio.pacchierotti@irisa.fr Address : Irisa / Inria Rennes Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes cedex - France Tel : +33 2 99 84 25 47 Fax : +33 2 99 84 71 71 Assistant : +33 2 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Background and Position

I was born the 27th of August 1987 in Siena, Italy.

In October 2009, I received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering con lode (focus on Robotics and Industrial automation) from the University of Siena, with a thesis entitled "RemoTouch - Remote tactile rendering".

From August 2010 to January 2011, I was a visiting student at Karlstad University, Sweden.

In September 2011, I received the M.S. degree in Computer Engineering con lode (focus on Robotics and Industrial automation) from the University of Siena, with a thesis entitled "Tactile feedback as a sensory subtraction technique in haptics for needle insertion".

In 2013, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Dept. Innovation in Mechanics and Management (DIMEG), University of Padova, Padova, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Giulio Rosati (Jan 2013), and a visiting Ph.D. student at the Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (MIRA), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Sarthak Misra (Jul 2013).

In 2014, I was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Haptics Group, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Katherine Kuchenbecker (Jan 2014 - Jul 2014).

In December 2014, I received the Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Robotics from the Dept. Information Engineering of the University of Siena, and the Dept. Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology (advisor: Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo, co-advisor: Prof. Darwin G. Caldwell).

From June 2015 to November 2016, I have been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Dept. Advanced Robotics of the Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy. During this time, I also visited again the Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (MIRA), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Sarthak Misra (Jul 2015 - Aug 2015).

From December 2016, I am Chargé de recherche de 2ème classe (CR2) of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at Irisa and Inria Rennes, France (Equipe Lagadic).

Awards and honors

• Silver Award (2nd best paper), AsiaHaptics, Chiba, Japan, 2016.
• Best Demonstration Award, IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), Philadelphia, USA, 2016.
• Meritorious Service Award as a Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2015.
• EuroHaptics Best PhD Thesis Award (best doctoral thesis in the field of haptics). Award granted by the EuroHaptics Society during the IEEE World Haptics Conference, Chicago, USA, 2015.
• Best Student Paper Award finalist, IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Singapore, Republic of Singapore, 2015.
• RemoTouch system (B.S. thesis project) selected to represent Italian scientific innovations during the World Expo in Shanghai, China, 2010.

Professional service

• Associate Editor, 2017 IEEE World Haptics, to take place in Munich, Germany, 2017.
• Publicity Chair, 2017 IEEE World Haptics, to take place in Munich, Germany, 2017.
• Co-Organizer (with Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Domenico Prattichizzo) of the workshop on "Cutaneous Feedback for Teleoperation in Medical Robotics," 2015 IEEE World Haptics Conference, Chicago, USA, 2015.
• Senior Reviewer, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Young Reviewers Program (from 2016).

Research areas

My background is in Computer Science and Robotics. My interests are in

• robotic teleoperation, with special attention to stability problems
• haptics, with special attention to tactile systems and wearable interfaces
• biomedical robotics, with special attention to robot-assisted surgery, needle insertion, and microrobotics

Publications

Complete list (with postscript or pdf files if available) and Google Scholar page.

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae (PDF).