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Tapomayukh 'Tapo' Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, where he directs the EmPRISE Lab. He completed his Ph.D. at the Robotics Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology and has served as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research aims to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations in activities of daily living. His work spans the fields of Human-Robot Interaction, Haptic Perception, and Robot Manipulation, focusing on fundamental research questions about how to leverage robot-world physical and social interactions in unstructured human environments to facilitate relevant activities. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the TRI Young Faculty Researcher Award, NSF CAREER Award, and AFCEA 40 Under 40 Award. His work has received media coverage from outlets such as BBC, Reuters, and IEEE Spectrum. Bhattacharjee is passionate about developing algorithms to solve core problems in robotic interaction and believes in the importance of deploying real robotic systems in the real world to evaluate their effectiveness with actual users.
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