Uksang Yoo (유욱상)

I am a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Ken Goldberg in the AUTOLab at UC Berkeley. I completed my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in the Robotics Institute (RI), where I was co-advised by Prof. Jean Oh and Prof. Jeffrey Ichnowski as a member of RI’s BIG lab and Momentum lab. I have also worked as a research scientist intern with the robot learning groups at Bosch AI (Summer 2025) and Meta (Fall 2025). My research focuses on leveraging robot hands’ unique morphologies to perform dexterous and contact-rich manipulation tasks in ways that exploit each morphology’s distinct capabilities.

My work spans two main areas: developing methods to utilize robot compliance for dexterous and delicate manipulation, and reasoning about continuous deformations of soft objects during contact-rich interactions. This research combines theoretical foundations in discrete differential geometry, machine learning, and soft body mechanics with practical applications in deploying dexterous robots to the real world.

I received my B.Sc. in Mathematics (2020) and in Mechanical Engineering (2021) at the University of Texas at Austin, where I developed my interest in continuous deformations and continuum structure representation. My research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.