Tersoo Samuel Awai is a PhD Candidate in Robotics & Control at IE University and a member of the IE Cyber-Physical Life Lab in Madrid. His research focuses on control systems, mechatronic design, and autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-sustaining robots that can diagnose, repair, and maintain themselves or other robots. His work combines mechanical and electrical design with modelling and control analysis to validate system performance and robustness.

Before joining IE University, he worked as an Algorithm Engineer at 4DiVISION in South Korea, where he developed robotic manipulation pipelines integrating vision-language-action models, computer vision, and motion planning on Yaskawa manipulators and SO-101 arms. He holds an MSc from the Korea University of Technology and Education and a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering from Necmettin Erbakan University, both supported by prestigious scholarships. His technical background includes MPC, LQR, robust control, and hands-on deployment with ROS 2, MoveIt 2, MATLAB, Python, and PyTorch.