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mark van der merwe search mark van der merwe home publications mark van der merwe phd candidate university of michigan biography i am a roboticist building robot learning systems that combine data driven learning with structured priors for perception planning and control in robotic manipulation i am a phd candidate in robotics at the university of michigan advised by dmitry berenson and nima fazeli i also spent time at merl working with devesh jha before joining michigan i was an intern at nasa jet propulsion laboratory working on the perception systems team i worked on the proposed mars sample return project i graduated with my honors bachelor s degree in computer science from the university of utah in may 2020 where i worked with tucker hermans during my undergraduate degree i also interned at mila under the supervision of liam paull news paper accepted at ra l 2026 here paper accepted at corl 2025 here paper accepted at ra l 2025 here paper accepted at icra 2025 here featured publications simultaneous extrinsic contact and in hand pose estimation via distributed tactile sensing mark van der merwe kei ota dmitry berenson nima fazeli devesh k jha we utilize factor graphs to enforce physical constraints on contact and pose estimation with tactile feedback ieee ra l 2026 pdf project in context iterative policy improvement for dynamic manipulation mark van der merwe devesh k jha pre trained large language models llms can iteratively improve policies for dynamic manipulation corl 2025 pdf video integrated object deformation and contact patch estimation from visuo tactile feedback mark van der merwe youngsun wi dmitry berenson nima fazeli sim2real transfer of learned implicit representation capturing deforming geometry and contact rss 2023 pdf project publications simultaneous extrinsic contact and in hand pose estimation via distributed tactile sensing mark van der merwe kei ota dmitry berenson nima fazeli devesh k jha ieee ra l 2026 pdf project in context iterative policy improvement for dynamic manipulation mark van der merwe devesh k jha corl 2025 pdf video estimating deformable rigid contact interactions for a deformable tool via learning and model based optimization mark van der merwe miquel oller dmitry berenson nima fazeli ieee ra l 2025 pdf project this that language gesture controlled video generation for robot planning boyang wang nikhil sridhar chao feng mark van der merwe adam fishman nima fazeli jeong joon park ieee icra 2025 pdf project calamari contact aware and language conditioned spatial action mapping for contact rich manipulation youngsun wi mark van der merwe andy zeng pete florence nima fazeli corl 2023 pdf project integrated object deformation and contact patch estimation from visuo tactile feedback mark van der merwe youngsun wi dmitry berenson nima fazeli rss 2023 pdf project learning the dynamics of compliant tool environment interaction for visuo tactile contact servoing mark van der merwe dmitry berenson nima fazeli corl 2022 pdf project video visuo tactile transformers for manipulation yizhou chen andrea sipos mark van der merwe nima fazeli corl 2022 pdf project rover relocalization for mars sample return by virtual template synthesis and matching tu hoa pham william seto shreyansh daftry barry ridge johanna hansen tristan thrush mark van der merwe gerard maggiolino alexander brinkman john mayo yang cheng curtis padgett eric kulczycki renaud detry ieee ra l 2021 pdf machine vision based sample tube localization for mars sample return shreyansh daftry barry ridge william seto tu hoa pham peter ilhardt gerard maggiolino mark van der merwe alex brinkman john mayo eric kulczyski renaud detry ieee aero 2021 pdf multi fingered active grasp learning qingkai lu mark van der merwe tucker hermans ieee iros 2020 pdf project learning continuous 3d reconstructions for geometrically aware grasping mark van der merwe qingkai lu balakumar sundaralingam martin matak tucker hermans ieee icra 2020 pdf project video multi fingered grasp planning via inference in deep neural networks qingkai lu mark van der merwe balakumar sundaralingam tucker hermans ieee ram 2020 pdf message scheduling for performant many core belief propagation best student paper finalist mark van der merwe vinu joseph ganesh gopalakrishnan ieee hpec 2019 pdf code slides powered by the academic theme for hugo cite copy download