About Me
I am Wadhah Zai El Amri, a PhD researcher at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. My work lies at the intersection of robotic perception, tactile sensing, and machine learning, with a particular focus on enabling robots to perceive and understand physical contact with the world.
I received my M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems from Bielefeld University, Germany, in 2022, and my B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Germany, in 2020.
Research Interests: Tactile sensing for robotics, transfer learning across sensor modalities, vibro-acoustic perception, deep reinforcement learning, and sim-to-real transfer.
Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaborating or discussing any of these topics.
News
- Apr 2026 — Paper accepted to Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems: SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors
- Jan 2026 — Preprint submitted: Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands
- Aug 2025 — Preprint submitted: Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands?
- May 2025 — Paper accepted to ICRA 2025: ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception
Publications
SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors
Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2026). "SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors." Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal.
Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands
Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2026). "Vibro-Sense: Robust Vibration-based Impulse Response Localization and Trajectory Tracking for Robotic Hands." 2026 Submitted to Springer Autonomous Robots Journal, 2026.
Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands?
Alexander Fabisch, Wadhah Zai El Amri, Chandandeep Singh, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2025). "Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands?" 2026 Submitted to Springer Autonomous Robots Journal, 2026.
ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception
Wadhah Zai El Amri, Malte Kuhlmann, Nicolás Navarro-Guerrero (2025). "ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception." 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 2025.
Projects
- ROS 2 Dual Arm Teleoperation — Side Project Markerless real-time teleoperation of dual UR5e robotic arms using a standard webcam and MediaPipe hand tracking. Built for...