
Tara Boroushaki
Research Assistant
tarab@media.mit.edu
Tara is currently a graduate student at MIT Media Lab. She is conducting research to improve robotic manipulation by sensor fusion. She completed her BS studies at Sharif University of Technology. Before joining Signal Kinetics, Tara spent 7 months at ETH Zurich Computer Vision and Geometry group as a research assistant. She also did a summer internship at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Research Interests
RFID localization, Robotic Manipulation, Sensor Fusion, Machine Learning
Robotics
RFID
M.S. 2021 MIT
Digital Communication & Multimedia
B.S. 2019 Sharif University
Electrical Engineering
ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Award (2019)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2019)
NSF CAREER Award (2019)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2019)
NSF CAREER Award (2019)
Publications

Robotic Grasping of Fully-Occluded Objects using RF Perception
Robotics RFID
IEEE ICRA ’21
Tara Boroushaki, Junshan Leng, Ian Clester, Alberto Rodriguez, Fadel Adib