Craig Shultz

For More Information

• Personal Website
• Interactive Display Lab Website

Education

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2017
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2015
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Tulsa, 2011

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2024-Present

Research Interests

• Human Computer Interaction - Exploring contemporary HCI uses cases and building novel input and output devic
• Electrostatic Actuation - Modeling and Characterization of moderate to high voltage electrostatic actuators
• Haptic Technology - Designing and evaluating tactile interaction devices

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Vivian Shen, Tucker Rae-Grant, Joe Mullenbach, Chris Harrison, and Craig Shultz. 2023. Fluid Reality: High-Resolution, Untethered Haptic Gloves using Electroosmotic Pump Arrays. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 8, 1–20.
• Craig Shultz and Chris Harrison. 2022. LRAir: Non-contact Haptics Using Synthetic Jets. In 2022 IEEE Haptics Symposium (HAPTICS), 1–6. Best Paper Award

Research Honors

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Haptics Early Career Award (2025)
• Best Paper (top of conference) (2022)
• Best Paper (top 1%) (2022)
• Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5%) (2022)
• Best Application Paper (top paper of the year) (2018)
• Best Paper (top of conference) (2018)
• Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5%) (2014)