Tasbolat Taunyazov

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PhD student at Dexbot, A*STAR and CLeAR, NUS.

Hi, there! I am Tasbolat, a final year PhD student at the School of Computing in the National University of Singapore (NUS). I am supervised by Dr. Yan Wu and Dr. Harold Soh. My PhD study is funded by SINGA scholarship.

My current research interests are Robot Manipulation, Tactile Perception, Multimodal Fusion . I am interested to make robots smarter using artificial intelligence to understand the environment through tactile sensing and vision, perform robotic tasks such as object grasping and manipulation. For more on my background works and publication, please take a look at my CV and google scholar page.

Previously, I received my M.S. and B.S in Robotics from Nazarbayev University in 2017 and 2015 respectively. During my two year long Master’s study, I worked in ALARIS lab at Nazarbayev Uninversity as a research assistant tackling control problems for both closed and open chain robots.

Email: tasbolat [at] comp.nus.edu.sg

news

Aug 8, 2024 Awarded Dean’s Graduate Research Excellence Award by NUS School of Computing!
May 14, 2024 Our latest work on grasp synthesis is accepted to R:SS 2024 (29% acceptance rate). Now we can optimize grasps using multiple classifiers using GRaCE. Unlike GraspFlow, it takes into account a hierarchical rule! Check out the paper GRaCE: Balancing Multiple Criteria to Achieve Stable, Safe, and Functional Grasps on ArXiv.
Jan 26, 2024 Submitted my PhD Thesis and am looking for a job in the market!
Sep 30, 2023 Our paper on GraspFlow: Refining 6-DoF Grasps with Context-Specific Classifiers was just accepted to IROS 2023!
Sep 30, 2021 Awarded Best Paper Award at IROS 2021 for our work on Extended Tactile Perception: Vibration Sensing through Tools and Grasped Objects!