July 2025
Our study Partner familiarity enhances performance in a manual precision task is now published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Roboticist · Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Designing collaborative robots that move with people—not around them.
I work with Prof. Dongheui Lee at TU Wien to advance safe human-robot collaboration, force-aware manipulation, and learning systems. My Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Gandhinagar (2024 gold medal) focused on human-inspired learning controllers for manipulators.
safe Human-Robot Collaboration
Nonlinear Control
Robot Learning
Shail Jadav
Vienna, Austria · TU Wien Autonomous Systems Lab- Doctorate Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar (2024 — Gold Medal).
- Previous Residencies Visiting researcher at TU Wien (pre-doc) and The University of Texas at Austin (gait therapy systems).
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien), working with Prof. Dongheui Lee. My research focuses on advancing safe and efficient human-robot collaboration through robotics and control theory. I apply concepts from nonlinear control and robot learning to various manipulators and grasping systems.
I completed my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar in 2024, where I worked alongside Prof. Harish PM to develop human-inspired learning controllers and motion planners for robotic manipulators, earning a gold medal for innovation.
Recognitions & Fellowships
Support that lets me keep building high-impact robotics with multidisciplinary teams.
- Gold Medal for innovation at IIT Gandhinagar's 13th convocation (2024).
- DST NIDHI PRAYAS grant for adaptive motion controllers.
- IEEE RAS & SPARC travel grants for international collaborations.
- IITGN Overseas Research Fellowship for TU Wien residency and Boeing BUILD Bootcamp regional win.
Latest News
Milestones from TU Wien, IIT Gandhinagar, and partner labs.
May 2025
REASSEMBLE, our multimodal dataset for contact-rich assembly & disassembly, has been accepted to RSS 2025.
May 2024
Completed my Ph.D. at IIT Gandhinagar with a gold medal celebrating outstanding innovation.
May 2024
Presented our shared-autonomy paper at ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, showcasing SALADS for co-manufacturing.
Featured Publications
Peer-reviewed research across human-robot collaboration, control theory, and rehabilitation.
Let’s shape the next generation of collaborative robots.
Email me about research collaborations, visiting students, or speaking invitations.