Hasti Seifi

Hasti Seifi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Haptic Intelligence Department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. Her academic journey includes a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, an M.Sc. from Simon Fraser University, and a Bachelors from the University of Tehran, Iran.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
• M.Sc. in emotional perception of facial animations, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

Her research focuses on haptics and human-computer interaction, particularly in personalizing tactile experiences and designing effective guidelines for haptic sensation evaluation. She combines interaction design and qualitative experiments to advance this field.

Scientific Awards:

• Eurohaptics 2018 best Ph.D. thesis award

Under the supervision of Professor Karon MacLean at the University of British Columbia, she developed expertise in affective computing and visualization, with applications to crowdsourcing haptic data and user-centered design.