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

• Jun 2026 — Paper accepted to Springer Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (Q1): Do Robots Really Need Anthropomorphic Hands?
• Jun 2026 — Two Extended Abstracts accepted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Wokshop: AI-Based Humanoid Robot Design and Control Through the Lens of HRI, Evolution, and Biomechanics
• Apr 2026 — Paper accepted to Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Q1): 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
• May 2025 — Paper accepted to ICRA 2025 (A*): ACROSS: A Deformation-Based Cross-Modal Representation for Robotic Tactile Perception

Publications

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Projects

• Side Project

  ROS 2 Dual Arm Teleoperation

  Markerless real-time teleoperation of dual UR5e robotic arms using a standard webcam and MediaPipe hand tracking. Built for fun with...

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