Kyle Yoshida is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA, where he leads the MOHALA Lab (Mechatronics for Outreach, Haptics, Agriculture, and Living Applications). Kyle earned his SB in Bioengineering with an African Studies minor from Harvard and his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. His work, spanning robotics, haptic perception, and human-robot interfaces, has been recognized through awards at the IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology National Conference. He is the founder of Honua Scholars, a STEM-mentorship non-profit recognized as one of the Top 10 Native STEM Enterprises by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.Â
Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA