Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee

Tapomayukh "Tapo" Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where he directs the EmPRISE Lab. He completed his Ph.D. in robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology and was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral research associate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He wants to enable robots to assist people with mobility limitations with activities of daily living. His work spans the fields of human-robot interaction, haptic perception, and robot manipulation and focuses on addressing the fundamental research question of how to leverage robot-world physical interactions in unstructured human environments to perform relevant activities of daily living. 

He is the recipient of the TRI Young Faculty Researcher Award '24, NSF CAREER Award '23, and AFCEA 40 under 40 Award '22, and his work has won Best Paper and Student Paper Award Finalist and Best HRI Paper Award Finalist at ICRA’25, Best Systems Paper Award Finalist at HRI'24, Best Demo Award at HRI '24, Best RoboCup Paper Award at IROS ’22, Best Paper Award Finalist and ABB Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IROS’22, Best Technical Advances Paper Award at HRI'19, and Best Demonstration Award at NeurIPS’18. His work has also been featured in many media outlets including the BBC, Reuters, New York Times, IEEE Spectrum, and GeekWire and his robot-assisted feeding work was selected to be one of the best interactive designs of 2019 by Fast Company.