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 |
| imdie022@umn.edu |
Education
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2024–present Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Minnesota - Robotics research in the RPM Lab.
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2023–2024 M.S. in Robotics
Minnesota Robotics Institute, University of Minnesota - Graduated in 2024 before beginning the Computer Science Ph.D. program.
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2019–2023 B.S. in Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota
Research
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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
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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
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2026 Towards Remote Thrombectomy with Telerobotically-Driven Guidewires
- Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference; University of Minnesota and Medtronic collaboration.
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2026 Vasculature Discretization and Search Space Simplification for Automating Catheter Navigation
- Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference.
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2026 StrokeNav2D: A Skeleton Based Dataset for Cerebrovascular Imitation Learning
- Co-author, Design of Medical Devices Conference.
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2026 Tailorable Force-Sensing Skins for Manipulators Using Textile and Additive Manufacturing
- Accepted, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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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.
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2025 AugInsert: Learning Robust Visual-Force Policies via Data Augmentation for Object Assembly Tasks
- Co-author, IROS 2025.
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2025 SPARK-Remote: A Cost-Effective System for Remote Bimanual Robot Teleoperation
- Lead author, ICRA Human-Centric Multilateral Teleoperation workshop.
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2024 Talk Through It: End User Directed Manipulation Learning
- Co-author, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
Teaching
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2026 CSCI 4131 · Internet Programming
University of Minnesota - Teaching assistant, Fall 2026.
Undergraduate Honors
- Robert F. Hartmann Scholarship.
- Roger Nordby Electrical Engineering Scholarship.