Mark Van der Merwe

Engineering · University of Michigan

Early career · publishing since 2019

Robot Manipulation and Learning Muscle activation and electromyography studies Soft Robotics and Applications Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Publications

Citations

128

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2019

In context

Among 583 early career Engineering PIs within our index

Citations: 128cohort median 150

Publications / year (recent): 3.0cohort median 2.6

Typically publishes in teams of ~5 · 36% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 5 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.0/year recently

Recent publications

Joint Deformation and Contact Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
Open MIND · 2026
TAP-VLA: Tactile Annotation Prompting for Vision Language Action Models
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
TAP-VLA: Tactile Annotation Prompting for Vision Language Action Models
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026
In-Context Iterative Policy Improvement for Dynamic Manipulation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template Synthesis and Matching
Lirias · 2021
Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template Synthesis and Matching
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2021
Machine Vision based Sample-Tube Localization for Mars Sample Return
2021
Rover Relocalization for Mars Sample Return by Virtual Template\n Synthesis and Matching
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021
Multifingered Grasp Planning via Inference in Deep Neural Networks: Outperforming Sampling by Learning Differentiable Models
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2020
Multi-Fingered Active Grasp Learning
2020
Learning Continuous 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically Aware Grasping
2020
Multi-Fingered Active Grasp Learning
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
Multi-Fingered Grasp Planning via Inference in Deep Neural Networks
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020
Message Scheduling for Performant, Many-Core Belief Propagation
2019

Publishes in

arXiv (Cornell University)×13
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×3
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine×1
Lirias×1
Open MIND×1

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