Curriculum Vitae

Selected experience and publications, updated October 2026.

About

Name Adam Imdieke
Affiliation University of Minnesota, Robotics: Perception and Manipulation Lab
Research Tactile sensing, contact-aware manipulation, and robot learning
Email imdie022@umn.edu

Education

  • 2024–present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    University of Minnesota
    • Robotics research in the RPM Lab.
  • 2023–2024
    M.S. in Robotics
    Minnesota Robotics Institute, University of Minnesota
    • Graduated in 2024 before beginning the Computer Science Ph.D. program.
  • 2019–2023
    B.S. in Computer Engineering
    University of Minnesota

Research

  • 2024–present
    Graduate researcher
    Robotics: Perception and Manipulation Lab, University of Minnesota
    • Tactile sensing, contact-aware inverse kinematics, and manipulation learning.
    • Sensor fabrication collaboration with the Wearable Technology Lab.

Industry Experience

  • Summer 2026
    Graduate research fellow
    Northrop Grumman Space Systems · AI Foundations
    • Research internship focused on supervised emergence in multi-agent AI systems.

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • 2026
    Towards Remote Thrombectomy with Telerobotically-Driven Guidewires
    • Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference; University of Minnesota and Medtronic collaboration.
  • 2026
    Vasculature Discretization and Search Space Simplification for Automating Catheter Navigation
    • Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference.
  • 2026
    StrokeNav2D: A Skeleton Based Dataset for Cerebrovascular Imitation Learning
    • Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference.
  • 2026
    Tailorable Force-Sensing Skins for Manipulators Using Textile and Additive Manufacturing
    • Accepted, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
  • 2026
    MagPie: A Magnetic-Piezoresistive Tactile Skin
    • IROS Scalable Tactile Sensing for Dexterous Manipulation workshop; listed as a contributed spotlight in the September 27 program.
  • 2025
    AugInsert: Learning Robust Visual-Force Policies via Data Augmentation for Object Assembly Tasks
    • Co-author, IROS 2025.
  • 2025
    SPARK-Remote: A Cost-Effective System for Remote Bimanual Robot Teleoperation
    • Lead author, ICRA Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation workshop.
  • 2024
    Talk Through It: End User Directed Manipulation Learning
    • Co-author, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

Teaching

  • 2026
    CSCI 4131 · Internet Programming
    University of Minnesota
    • Teaching assistant, Fall 2026.

Undergraduate Honors

  • Robert F. Hartmann Scholarship.
  • Roger Nordby Electrical Engineering Scholarship.