Yon Visell
Associate Professor
Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Best Paper Award, IEEE Haptics Symposium 2024; Distinguished Presentation Award, IEEE Haptics Symposium 2024; Best Paper Award, IEEE Transactions on Haptics 2023; Best Presentation Award, Festival of Touch Conference, 2023; Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
Research
Visell directs the RE Touch Lab, where they pursue fundamental and applied research on the future of interactive technologies, with emphasis on haptics, robotics, and electronics, including emerging opportunities in human-computer interaction, sensorimotor augmentation, soft robotics, and interaction in virtual reality.
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
MA Physics, University of Texas, Austin
BA Physics, Wesleyan University