Nima Fazeli

Engineering · University of Michigan

Mid career · publishing since 2010Rising activity

Robot Manipulation and Learning Tactile and Sensory Interactions Soft Robotics and Applications Reinforcement Learning in Robotics Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics

Publications

Citations

1,512

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2010

In context

Among 1,598 mid career Engineering PIs within our index

Citations: 1,512cohort median 507

Publications / year (recent): 12.0cohort median 3.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 38% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 11 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 12.0/year recently

Collaborators per year

Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.

Recent publications

Simultaneous Extrinsic Contact and In-Hand Pose Estimation via Distributed Tactile Sensing
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2026
RUMI: Rummaging Using Mutual Information
IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 2025
This&That: Language-Gesture Controlled Video Generation for Robot Planning
2025
ViTaSCOPE: Visuo-tactile Implicit Representation for In-hand Pose and Extrinsic Contact Estimation
2025
Contrastive Touch-to-Touch Pretraining
2025
Vib2Move: In-hand Object Reconfiguration via Fingertip Micro-vibrations
2025
Estimating Deformable-Rigid Contact Interactions for a Deformable Tool via Learning and Model-Based Optimization
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2025
Modeling of the high-viscosity fluid transient flow for material deposition in direct ink writing
Additive manufacturing · 2025
Tactile Functasets: Neural Implicit Representations of Tactile Datasets
2025
ViTaSCOPE: Visuo-tactile Implicit Representation for In-hand Pose and Extrinsic Contact Estimation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
Hydrosoft: Non-Holonomic Hydroelastic Models for Compliant Tactile Manipulation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
Estimating Deformable-Rigid Contact Interactions for a Deformable Tool via Learning and Model-Based Optimization
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
Using Temperature Sampling to Effectively Train Robot Learning Policies on Imbalanced Datasets
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
GrOMP: Grasped Object Manifold Projection for Multimodal Imitation Learning of Manipulation
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025
Vib2Move: In-Hand Object Reconfiguration via Fingertip Micro-Vibrations
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

Publishes in

arXiv (Cornell University)×46
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters×5
The International Journal of Robotics Research×3
Springer proceedings in advanced robotics×2
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)×2

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Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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