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 View Larger Image and Additional Photos of Ali ShtarbanovAbout Ali Shtarbanov : Ali Shtarbanov is a Human-Computer Interaction researcher and Ph.D. student at MIT Media Lab. He develops platforms, tools, and enabling technologies that empower makers, researchers, designers, and artists with new technological opportunities to rapidly bring projects and ideas to life, enabling them to create the futures they envision. Ali's primary mission is to make opportunities for creativity, prototyping, and innovation more seamless and more accessible for people from all technical and all socioeconomic backgrounds. MIT Media Lab EDUCATION: 2022, Human Computer Interaction, PhD, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge/USA. 2018, Media Arts and Sciences, MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge/USA. 2015, Electrical Engineering, BS, Lehigh University, Bethlehem/USA 2015, Physics, BA, Lehigh University, Bethlehem/USA MIXED EXHIBITIONS: 2019, "The Bees of Science", MIT Media Lab, Cambridge/MA 2019, "Bubble", ACM CHI Conference, Glasgow/UK. AWARDS: 2021, 1st Place, ACM CHI'21 Student Research Competition. 2021, Silver, A'Design Award for Scientific Instruments and Research Equipment. 2020, Best Poster Award, IROS Workshop on Application‑Oriented Modeling and Control of Soft Robotics ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: 2021, "FlowIO Development Platform – the Pneumatic “Raspberry Pi” for Soft Robotics", ACM CHI'21, Yokohama/Japan 2020, "Introducing FlowIO – Modular, Integrated Development Platform for Soft Robotics", IROS 2020 Workshop Paper. 2020, "Wearable Sanitizer: Design and Implementation of an Open-source, On-body Sanitizer", SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, "Bubble: Wearable assistive grasping augmentation based on soft inflatables", ACM CHI'19, Glasgow/UK 2018, "Free-space haptic feedback for 3d displays via air-vortex rings" ACM CHI'18, Montreal/Canada 2018, "AirTap: Multimodal Interactive Interface Platform with Free-Space Cutaneous Haptic Feedback via Toroidal Air-Vortices", MS Thesis, MIT, Cambridge/USA ACCOLADES: Summa Cum Laude, top 1%, Lehigh University (BSEE & BA) Lehigh University Presidential Scholarship, full tuition covered Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Francis du Pont Memorial Prize Sherman Fairchild Fellowship Lee Iacocca Fellowship LANGUAGE SKILLS: English (native), Bulgarian (native) Russian (beginner) COMPUTER LITERACY: C/C++, JavaScript, PHP, Python, HTML/CSS, Verilog Autodesk EAGLE, SolidWorks, Fusion360, Photoshop, Illustrator, Unity3D Object Oriented Design, Design of APIs and Libraries, System Architecture Design COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS:: (1 place winner) Application-Oriented Modelling and Control of Soft Robots, IROS 2020 (leader) Intro to Soft Robotics Workshop at Ferrara Italy, Jan. 2020 (leader) Intro to Soft Robotics Workshop at MIT Media Lab, Nov. 2019 (presenter) Mid-Air Haptics for Control Interfaces, CHI 2018 (TA) graduate course, How to Make Almost Anything, MAS.863, 2016-2018 SYMPOSIUMS AND ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:: CHI 2021 IROS 2020 CHI 2019 CHI 2018 JURY MEMBERSHIPS: 2019, Reviewer for IEEE HAVE 2019 2019, Judge for 35 Innovators Under 35, Europe (MIT Technology Review) 2018, MIT Hacking Arts Competition and Hackathon PORTFOLIO URL: http://shtarbanov.com REGISTRATION DATE: 2021-02-25 23:41:12 COUNTRY/REGION: United States of America ACCOUNT TYPE: Academic Collaboration |
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