Harsh Gupta

Last updated: March 2025

I am an undergrad at UIUC pursuing a BS in Computer Engineering. I am advised by Prof. Wenzhen Yuan at the RoboTouch Lab.

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Research

I am generally interested in deep learning, representation learning, computer vision, and their application to robotics. I have been working on foundation models, focusing on how they can be leveraged for tasks in robotics, such as embodied perception, tactile sensing, and manipulation.

Sensor-Invariant Tactile Represenation
Harsh Gupta*, Yuchen Mo*, Shengmiao Jin, Wenzhen Yuan
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
arXiv / webpage

Tactile foundation model enabling zero-shot transfer across optical tactile sensors by extracting sensor-invariant tactile representations.

Projects

Here are some fun projects I worked on before I knew what research was.

Newton Hand: Real-Time Spatial Modeling and Gesture Estimation
Fall 2023
video / code

A wearable device with IMUs for real-time hand landmark estimation, enabling basic American Sign Language (ASL) translation.

TRACE: Tennis Match Analysis and Visualization Tool
Spring 2023
video / code

A tool that processes tennis match videos to extract player, court, and ball data, generating top-down views and collecting data for analysis.

Miscellaneous

Awards

Timothy N. Trick Leadership Award, 2025
Indira Gunda Saladi Engineering Research Prize, 2024
Ackmann Family Scholarship, 2024
Edmund J. James Scholar, 2023

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, ECE120 Spring 2023

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