My name is Ixchel Ramirez-Alpizar.
I am a senior researcher with the Human-Evolving AI & Robotics Research Team at the Integrated Center for Wellbeing and with the Task Intelligent Robotics Research Group at the Intelligent Systems Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) at Tokyo Waterfront Center. From 2019 to 2024 I was with the Automation Research Team at the Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center (ICPS) of AIST. From 2016 to 2019, I was an Assistant Professor at Professor’s Kensuke Harada Laboratory of the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, where I am currently a guest Associate Professor.
I got my Ph.D. in Robotics from Osaka University, working on the manipulation of deformable objects.
I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Manipulation Group of AIST, where I worked on motion and assembly planning of deformable objects.
I was a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Gepetto Team of the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS-CNRS) in France for almost one year, where I worked on pulling a fire hose with the HRP-2 humanoid robot.
Currently, I am working on how to efficiently make robots learn different kinds of dexterous tasks and working on human-robot collaboration and remote control of robots in manufacturing scenarios.