David Cordova Bulens

I am currently an Electrical engineer at Applied Materials working on the development of plasma sensing technology for the semiconductor manufacturing industry.

I graduated as an Electro-mechanical engineer from Université catholique de Louvain (BS 2011, MS 2013) and I received a PhD in applied science (2017) from the same university for my work entitled "Using robust and optimal control theory to understand hand dominance and bimanual coordination", this work was supervised by Philippe Lefèvre and co-supervised by Jean-Louis Thonnard. During 2020-2024 I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin, working with Stephen Redmond. I studied the sense of touch and its role in dexterous manipulation. I also designed and developed tactile robotic sensors capable of detecting slippage and able to measure the coefficient of friction of a surface.