I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah working with Tucker Hermans.
Download my CV: here (Last updated: January, 2025)
In December 2024 I got my PhD, also from the University of Utah. I was advised by Tucker Hermans, and the focus of my PhD was on multifingered grasping and manipulation of everyday objects. During my PhD, I spent two years interning at NVIDIA tackling the same problem.
Previously, I earned my M.Sc. degree in Logic and Computation from TU Wien where I was advised by Georg Weissenbacher, and a B.Sc. degree in Computing from University of Zagreb.
Publications
DextrAH-G: Pixels-to-Action Dexterous Arm-Hand Grasping with Geometric Fabrics [PDF]
Martin Matak*, Tyler Ga Wei Lum*, Viktor Makoviychuk, Ankur Handa, Arthur Allshire, Tucker Hermans, Nathan D. Ratliff, Karl Van Wyk
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024.
23 DoF Grasping Policies from a Raw Point Cloud[PDF]
Martin Matak, Karl Van Wyk, Tucker Hermans
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop on Geometric Representations 2023.
Planning Visual-Tactile Precision Grasps via Complementary Use of Vision and Touch [PDF][short video]
Martin Matak and Tucker Hermans
IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters (RA-L) 2023.
Comparing Piezoresistive Substrates for Tactile Sensing in Dexterous Hands [PDF]
Rebecca Miles, Martin Matak, Mohanraj Devendran Shanthi, Darrin Young, Tucker Hermans
arxiv
Learning Continuous 3D Reconstructions for Geometrically Aware Grasping [PDF]
Mark Van der Merwe, Qingkai Lu, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Martin Matak, Tucker Hermans
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020