Sammy Christen
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the robotics team at Disney Resarch Zurich. I obtained my PhD at the AIT lab, ETH Zurich, supervised by Professor Otmar Hilliges and co-supervised by Professor Jemin Hwangbo. My research focuses on human-robot interaction and dexterous robotic grasping. During my PhD, I spent time at the NVIDIA AI Robotics Lab in Seattle and at Meta Reality Labs.
News
Our paper "RobustDexGrasp: Robust Dexterous Grasping of General Objects" is accepted at CoRL 2025.
Our paper "Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction via Operator Imitation" is accepted at IROS 2025.
Part of the organizing committee at the GenAI-HRI workshop at RSS 2025.
Honored as outstanding reviewer at CVPR 2025.
Served as social media chair at 3DV 2025.
Started a new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at Disney Research.
Successfully defended my PhD!
Selected Publications
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RobustDexGrasp: Robust Dexterous Grasping of General Objects
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2025
Omnigrasp: Grasping Diverse Objects with Simulated Humanoids
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
DiffH2O: Diffusion-Based Synthesis of Hand-Object Interactions from Textual Descriptions
SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Papers, 2024
Learning Human-to-Robot Handovers from Point Clouds
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023
Highlight (top 2.5%)
D-Grasp: Physically Plausible Dynamic Grasp Synthesis for Hand-Object Interactions
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
Reviewing
CoRL, CVPR (outstanding reviewer), ICCV, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, SIGGRAPH Asia
CVPR, EAI@CVPR, ECCV, ICRA, IROS, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, T-RO
CVPR, ICCV, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, SIGGRAPH, 3DV, Comput Methods Biomech and Biomed Eng
CVPR, ICRA, IROS, RA-L, ECCV (outstanding reviewer), SIGGRAPH Asia, Computers & Graphics
IROS, NeurIPS, RA-L
CHI, RA-L, ICRA