| Aug 01, 2026 | I started an industry contract-research collaboration with Mirka Oy on applying Vision-Language-Action models to robotic manipulation. |
| Jun 01, 2026 | I was an invited participant in the Dexterous Manipulation Roundtable on Benchmarking, Reproducibility, and Standards at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, convening leading organizations in robot manipulation (NIST, EPFL, Northwestern, King’s College London, Shadow Robot). |
| Oct 22, 2025 | I won the 2025 IEEE IROS “Outstanding Associate Editor Award”. |
| Sep 29, 2025 | I will serve as an Associate Editor for ICRA 2026. |
| Sep 27, 2025 | I co-organized the workshop Beyond Rigid Worlds: Representing and Interacting with Non-Rigid Objects at CoRL 2025 in Seoul, Korea. |
| Sep 01, 2025 | I started as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Robotics and Machine Learning at University of Turku. |
| May 01, 2025 | I served as an Associate Editor for IEEE IROS 2025. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | I gave an invited talk at the CoRL 2024 Workshop on Mastering Robot Manipulation in a World of Abundant Data in Munich, Germany. |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Our paper DexDiffuser: Generating Dexterous Grasps with Diffusion Models was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). |
| Jun 09, 2024 | I organized the RPL Summer School 2024 (80 participants) in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Jun 01, 2023 | I received the Aalto University Doctoral Thesis Award, given to the top 10% of doctoral theses at the School of Electrical Engineering. |
| May 01, 2022 | I started as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Danica Kragic’s lab at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. |
| Feb 01, 2022 | I completed my Ph.D. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. |
| Jan 01, 2020 | I joined Dieter Fox’s lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, as a visiting doctoral researcher. |