Dr Shuhei Miyashita

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer in Robotics

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shuhei.miyashita@sheffield.ac.uk
Amy Johnson Building

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Dr Shuhei Miyashita
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

Shuhei Miyashita received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2011.

He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the ±¬ÁÏTV, UK. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA, and Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA, from 2011 to 2015, and a Lecturer at the University of York, UK from 2016 to 2018.

Research interests
  • Micro and milli robotics
  • Self-assembling machine
  • Metamaterial
  • 4D printing
  • Self-reconfigurable systems
  • Biomedical robots
  • Origin of life
Publications

Journal articles

  • Mizuna M, Chen X, Iwase E & Miyashita S (2025) . Smart Materials and Structures, 34(7).
  • Esendag K, McAlindon ME, Rus D, Miyashita S & Damian DD (2024) . IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 6(4), 1300-1308.
  • Lahondes Q & Miyashita S (2024) . Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11.

Book chapters

  • Harman UU, Mistry I & Miyashita S (2026) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 42-49). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Chen X, Tulasi SRS, Nnam CO, Damian D, Kinoshita S & Miyashita S (2026) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 293-303). Springer Nature Switzerland

Conference proceedings

  • Zhao Z, Hafez A & Miyashita S (2025) . 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 9081-9087), 19 May 2025 - 23 May 2025.
  • Harman UU, Hafez A, Duffield C, Zhao Z, Dixon L, Rus D & Miyashita S (2024) . 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 2387-2393), 14 October 2024 - 18 October 2024.
  • Chen X, Han J, Jin X & Miyashita S (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 11706-11712), 13 May 2024 - 17 May 2024.
  • Han J, Rus D & Miyashita S (2023) . 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 1 October 2023 - 5 October 2023.
  • Esendag K, McAlindon M, Rus D, Miyashita S & Damian D (2023) . Proceedings of The 15th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2023 (pp 105-106)
Teaching activities
  • Mechatronics (ACS231)
  • Mechatronics for Robotics (ACS6502)

Links

  Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group