dakarai crowder

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Wenzhen Yuan. My research interests include robotics, social physical human–robot interaction, tactile sensing, virtual reality, and haptics.

I currently work in the RoboTouch Lab on fabric-based tactile sensing for humanoid robots and virtual environments for human–robot interaction experiments.

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PUBLICATIONS

  • ICRA 2026
    Under Review, ICRA 2026
    Tactile-Based Human Intent Recognition for Robot Assistive Navigation
    Shaoting Peng, Dakarai Crowder, Wenzhen Yuan, Katherine Driggs-Campbell
    Under review arXiv
  • ICRA 2025
    ICRA 2025
    Social Gesture Recognition in spHRI: Leveraging Fabric-Based Tactile Sensing on Humanoid Robots
    Dakarai Crowder, Kojo Vandyck, Xiping Sun, James McCann, Wenzhen Yuan
    Webpage arXiv
  • Biological Cybernetics, 2023
    Extreme image transformations affect humans and machines differently
    G. Malik, Dakarai Crowder, E. Mingolla
    Paper
  • CVPR Workshop, 2022 (Oral)
    Robustness of Humans and Machines on Object Recognition with Extreme Image Transformations
    Dakarai Crowder*, G. Malik*
    arXiv