I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Haptics and VR Lab at Kyung Hee University, South Korea, working with Prof. Seokhee Jeon, who also supervised my Ph.D. research. My research lies at the intersection of haptics, psychophysics, artificial intelligence, and multimodal interactive systems.

My work investigates how humans perceive and interpret touch through force, vibration, motion, and physical interaction. I conduct psychophysical experiments and perceptual modeling to analyze the relationship between interaction signals and human sensory experience, with the goal of developing perceptually grounded haptic modeling and rendering frameworks. My expertise includes AI-driven and language-guided haptic interaction, particularly multimodal systems that translate human descriptions, perceptual intent, and interaction data into realistic and meaningful haptic feedback.

Research Interests: Haptics, Human-AI Interaction, Multimodal Interfaces, Psychophysics, AI-driven Haptic Modeling and Rendering, and Language-guided Haptic Interaction

Research Collaborations: During my Ph.D. and postdoc, I collaborated with researchers and industry partners including KAIST, Hyundai, Konkuk University, ETRI, KRISS, and Sejong University.

News

  • April 2026: Paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF 9.9): Fourier-enhanced Transformer Encoder Network for Efficient Haptic Texture Modeling/Rendering.
  • July 2025: Workshop speaker at World Haptics Conference 2025 in the AI in Haptics session.
  • July 2025: Presented the paper Text-Driven Generative Framework for Multimodal Visual and Haptic Texture Synthesis at World Haptics Conference 2025.
  • July 2025: Presented HapTune: An Open-Source Visual Tool for Designing User-Defined Haptic Signals.
  • Dec 2024: Presented Haptic Feedback Chair for Simulating Heartbeat Sensations at the KIISE Conference, Jeonnam.
  • Aug 2024: Demonstrated Haptic Texture Rendering with AI based approach at the Korea Haptics Conference 2024.
  • Sep 2023: Paper accepted: Predicting Perceptual Haptic Attributes of Textured Surfaces from Tactile Data Based on Deep CNN-LSTM Network.
  • June 2023: Paper accepted at KCC 2023: Design and Evaluation of Lightweight Deep Learning Models for Synthesizing Haptic Surface Textures.
  • June 2023: Presented the paper Model Mediated Teleoperation for Online Texture Modeling and Rendering at Excel London.

Selected Publications

2026

Fourier-enhanced Transformer Encoder Network for Efficient Haptic Texture Modeling and Rendering

Fourier-enhanced Transformer Encoder Network for Efficient Haptic Texture Modeling/Rendering

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, Sungjoo Kang, Dongbeom Ko, Waseem Hassan, Seong Tae Kim, and Seokhee Jeon
 

 In IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, 2026. (Accpeted- in preprint process)

2025

HapTune: Demonstration of an Open-Source Visual Tool for Designing User-Defined Haptic Signals

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, and Seokhee Jeon
 

In IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2025 – Demonstaration

Quantifying Haptic Affection of Car Door through Data-Driven Analysis of Force Profile

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, Ahsan Raza, Waseem Hassan, Ki-Uk Kyung, and Seokhee Jeon
 

 In IEEE Access, 2025.

User interacting with the final interface of the text-driven texture synthesis system that generates visual and haptic textures from natural language prompts.

Text-Driven Generative Framework for Multimodal Visual and Haptic Texture Synthesis

Myrah Naeem*, Mudassir Ibrahim Awan*,  and Seokhee Jeon
 

 In IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), 2025.

Estimating Perceptual Attributes of Haptic Textures Using Visuo-Tactile Data

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, and Seokhee Jeon

 In IEEE Access, 2025.

2023

Model-mediated teleoperation for remote haptic texture sharing: Initial study of online texture modeling and rendering

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, Tatyana Ogay, Waseem Hassan, Dongbeom Ko, S.Kang, and Seokhee Jeon

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023. 

Dronehaptics: Encountered-type haptic interface using dome-shaped drone for 3-dof force feedback

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, Ahsan Raza, and Seokhee Jeon

 In IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2023.

Predicting perceptual haptic attributes of textured surface from tactile data based on deep CNN-LSTM network

Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, Waseem Hassan, and Seokhee Jeon

 In ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), 2023.

Vibrotactile stimulation for 3D printed prosthetic hand

Muhammad Nabeel, Kashan Aqeel, Muhammad Noman Ashraf, Mudassir Ibrahim Awan, and Muhammad Khurram

 In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (ICRAI), 2016.

Miscellanea

Invited Talks

Reviewer Services

  • IEEE Sensors Journal (2026)
  • IEEE Transactions on Haptics – ToH (2025~Cont.)
  • Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – CHI (2025~Cont.)
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics – TVCG ( 2024 ~ Cont.)
  • IEEE Access (2024 ~ Cont.)
  • IEEE World Haptics Conference – WHC (2023~ Cont.)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality – ISMAR (2024 ~ Cont.)
  • ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology – VRST (2023 ~ Cont.).
  • Euro Haptics Conference 2024
  • IEEE Conference on Ubiquitous Robots – UR (2023)

Honors and Awards

  • Full bright President scholarship to pursue MS-PhD in Kyung Hee University, South Korea (2018 ~ 2025)
  • Received Merit scholarships (five times/semesters) during Bachelor degree. (2012 ~ 2016)

Travel Grants

  • London, UK to attend International Conference on Robotics and Automation – ICRA  (June 2023) 
  • Tokyo, Japan to attend World Haptics Conference  (July 2019) 
  • South Korea: 
    • IEEE World Haptics Conference – WHC (July 2025)
    • Korea Haptics Conference (2023 ~ 2024)
    • Korea Tech Expo (2022 ~ 2023)
    • Korea Human-Computer Interaction Conference – KHCI (2022),
    • Korea Software Congress – KSC (2022 ~ 2024)
    • International Asia Haptics Conference (2018) 
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