Members of the Program Committee coordinate the review of all conference technical papers submitted to the IEEE Haptics Symposium. This board is composed of established scientists with a broad range of scientific backgrounds. We deeply appreciate their service to the haptics community and this conference.

Conference Editorial Board

The Conference Editorial Board ( editors@hapticssymposium.org ) assemble and coordinate the Program Committee for Haptics Symposium 2026.

• Hiroyuki Kajimoto, University of Electro-Communications
• Matteo Bianchi, University of Pisa
• Mounia Ziat, Bentley University

Program Committee

• Loutit Alastair, University of Geneva
• Giulia Ballardini, Max Planck Institute
• Yuki Ban, University of Tokyo
• Edoardo Battaglia, University of Utah
• Roland Bennewitz, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials
• Jas Brooks, MIT
• Elyse Chase, Rice University
• Janelle Clark, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
• Ismail Devecioğlu, Namık Kemal University
• Charles Dhong, University of Delaware
• Amy Kyungwon Han, Seoul National University
• Saal Hans, University of Sheffield
• Jin Ryong Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
• Irene Kuling, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Scinob Kuroki, NTT
• Takuto Nakamura, Osaka University
• Cara Nunez, Cornell University
• Shogo Okamoto, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Claudio Pacchierotti, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IRISA
• Yusuke Ujitoko, NTT
• Vibol Yem, University of Tsukuba
• Jung-Hwan Youn, University of Illinois

Work-In-Progress Editorial Board

The Work-In-Progress Chair ( wip@hapticssymposium.org ) assembles and coordinates the WIP Committee for Haptics Symposium 2026.

• Cara M. Nunez, Cornell University

Work-In-Progress Program Committee

• Alexander Achberger, University of Stuttgart
• Ned Barker, King’s College London
• J. Michael Bertsch, University of Virginia
• Laura Cang, University of British Columbia
• Patrick Dills, Northwestern University
• Megh Doshi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Hyunjae Gil, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
• Yijie Gong, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Taku Hashisu, University of Tsukuba
• Junjie Hua, Bentley University
• Anika Kao, University of Virginia
• Anzu Kawazoe, Texas A&M University
• Shihan Lu, Northwestern University
• Iliyas Tursynbek, Nazarbayev University
• Kyle Yoshida, University of California Los Angeles