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

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

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, ECE120 Spring 2023

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