Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow @ Bentley University

• Sept. 2025 - Present
• Experience Design Lab, Waltham, MA, USA
• Investigating mechanisms of multisensory integration between visual and tactile stimuli supported by NSF Award 2216763
• Designing psychophysical experiments to study complex thermal illusions and wetness perception
• Mentoring undergraduate students for NSF research projects

Technical Staff @ Kyushu University

• 2024 - 2025
• School of Design, Fukuoka, Japan
• Contributed to foundational research on human liquid perception under JSPS Grant
• Developed custom hydroptical devices and analyzed sensory data using Python and R

Guest Instructor @ Bentley University

• Fall 2025 - Present
• Leading workshops on haptic feedback principles and sensory illusions for graduate students
• Facilitating design reviews and providing feedback on multimodal design projects

Research Assistant @ Osaka University

• April 2017 - March 2024
• Working with Professor Maeda and Associate Professor Furukawa
• Conducted Ph.D. research on Extrapolation of Thermal Sensation (ETS) and spatiotemporal neural mechanisms
• Recognized as Best Paper Finalist at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026 for multiple studies

SEEDS Assistant & Mentor @ Osaka University

• 2019 - 2023
• Mentored talented high school students in project-based learning for science and engineering
• Facilitated technical guidance on experimental design and data analysis
• Check us out at https://www.seeds.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Volunteer @ Kyoto Marathon 2020

• Feb.13th 2020 - Feb.16th 2020
• Please check us out at https://www.kyoto-marathon.com/en/

Internship at Omron

• September 2019

Tutor of exchange student from UC Berkeley

• June 2019 - August 2019
• Working with Michael Wu
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ra65R-S20o0

Research assistant

• Aug 2019 - Present
• Working with Professor Maeda and Associate professor Furukawa
• Working on thermal illusion display development
• Goal is to discover human illusion of thermal sensation

Fireball & Iceball cast experience

• July 2019 - Present
• Working with Wentao Zheng and Jingcheng Shen
• Working on the thermal display development
• Goal is to develop a thermal display with softness and apply it to a brand-new fireball/iceball cast experience
• Please check us out at http://www.junjie-hua.online/2019/08/09/softthermal/
• Please watch demonstration Here

SEEDS assistant

• July 2019 - Present
• SEEDS is an acronym for “Science & Engineering Enhanced Education for Distinguished Students” and is a program for aspiring high school students who want to quickly touch the world's most advanced science and technology
• Goal is to have a wide range of small curiosity buds about science by touching a wide range of research at Osaka University
• Please check us out at https://www.seeds.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Volunteer @ World Haptics 2019

• July.8th 2019 - July.12th 2019
• Please check us out at http://www.worldhaptics2019.org/

Advanced Bioinformatics

• Octember 2017 - March 2018
• Working with Associate Professor Ando
• Goal is to detect pronunciation by masticatory EMG data with machine learning
• Please check us out at http://www.junjie-hua.online/2017/10/01/advancedbioinformatics/