Dr. Roman Mykhailyshyn is a Senior Research Scientist at the Embodied AI Research Team, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tokyo, Japan. Also, from 2023, Dr. Mykhailyshyn is an Adjunct Professor at the EPAM School of Digital Technologies, American University Kyiv (Powered by Arizona State University).

• 2024 - 2025 Research Associate Professor at the Robotic Manipulation Lab, The University of Osaka (Japan) working with Prof. Kensuke Harada.
• 2022 - 2024 Research Fellow (Provost’s Early Career Fellow) at the Texas Robotics and Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (USA) working with Prof. Ann Majewicz Fey.
• 2021 - 2022 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) working with Prof. Jing Xiao.
• 2019 - 2023 Associate Professor at the Department of Automation Technological Processes and Manufacturing, Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University (Ukraine).

In 2018 Dr. Mykhailyshyn received his Ph.D. in Engineering at the Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University (Ukraine under the mentorship of Prof. Volodymyr Savkiv), experimental part of the dissertation was conducted at the National Center of Robotics and STU (Slovak Republic under the mentorship of Prof. František Duchon). He was multiple times awarded the Fellowships of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Young Scientists in 2020-2023 and the 2022 Machines Young Investigator Award. He was awarded the Ternopil City Council in the nomination “Young Scientists and Researchers” in 2020 and the Ternopil Regional State Administration and Ternopil Regional Council in 2018. Dr. Mykhailyshyn is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Dr. Mykhailyshyn is an author of more than 30 articles, published in leading scholarly journals in robotics, computing, engineering, and manufacturing. His research focuses on robotics, grasping and manipulation, modeling of physical systems, additive manufacturing, minimization of energy costs for transport operations by industrial robots, and design of gripping devices. He served as a member of the Transport editorial board, associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, ICRA, IROS, ARSО, topical advisory panel member of Robotics, Machines and Guest Editor for a special issue “Advanced Grasping and Motion Control Solutions” and “Advanced Grasping and Motion Control Solutions, Volume II” of Robotics. He is also served as reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, International Journal of Robotics Research, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Access, Journal of Field Robotics, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, Robotica, Robotics, Machines, Applied Sciences, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C-Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, and many others.

R. Mykhailyshyn's research interests, particularly in Robotics, Grasping and Manipulation, Gripping Design, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), Rapid Prototyping

Scientific Publications:

R. Mykhailyshyn, A. Majewicz Fey, J. Xiao, Toward Novel Grasping of Non-Rigid Materials Through Robotic End-Effector Reorientation. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2024, 29(4), 2614-2624. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2023.3337628

P. Maruschak, I. Konovalenko, Y. Osadtsa, V. Medvid, O. Shovkun, D. Baran, H. Kozbur, R. Mykhailyshyn, Surface Illumination as a Factor Influencing the Efficacy of Defect Recognition on the Rolled Metal Surface Using a Deep Neural Network. Applied Sciences, 2024, 14(6), 2591. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app14062591

Mykhailyshyn, R., & Fey, A. M. (2024, June). Low-Contact Grasping of Soft Tissue Using a Novel Vortex Gripper. In 2024 International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMR63436.2024.10585970

R. Mykhailyshyn, A. Majewicz Fey, J. Xiao, Finite element modeling of grasping porous materials in robotics cells. Robotica, Cambridge Press, 2023, 41(11), 3485-3500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574723001121

R. Mykhailyshyn, F. Duchoň, I. Virgala, P. J. Sinčák, & A. Majewicz Fey, Optimization of Outer Diameter Bernoulli Gripper with Cylindrical Nozzle. Machines, 2023, 11(6), 667. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines11060667

R. Mykhailyshyn, V. Savkiv, A. Majewicz Fey, J. Xiao, Gripping Device for Textile Materials, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023, 20(4), 2397–2408. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2022.3208796

R. Mykhailyshyn, F. Duchoň, M. Mykhailyshyn, A. Majewicz Fey, Three-Dimensional Printing of Cylindrical Nozzle Elements of Bernoulli Gripping Devices for Industrial Robots. Robotics. 2022; 11(6):140. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics11060140

R. Mykhailyshyn, V. Savkiv, P. Maruschak, J. Xiao, A systematic review on pneumatic gripping devices for industrial robots, Transport, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 201-231, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3846/transport.2022.17110

R. Mykhailyshyn and J. Xiao. Influence of Inlet Parameters on Power Characteristics of Bernoulli Gripping Devices for Industrial Robots. In: Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 7074, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12147074

R. Mykhailyshyn, V. Savkiv, I. Boyko, E. Prada, & I. Virgala, Substantiation of Parameters of Friction Elements of Bernoulli Grippers With a Cylindrical Nozzle. International Journal of Manufacturing, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering. Vol. 11(2). pp. 17-39. 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMMME.2021040102