Juan Carlos Martinez Rocha

Postdoctoral position
ESME

Overview of research area

The research of Juan Carlos Martinez Rocha focuses on the application of interactive robotics, mobile robotics, and human-machine interaction to develop intelligent assistive robotic systems.

Short biography

Juan graduated as an electronics engineer from the National Technological Institute of Mexico (ITNM) in 2019. He obtained his master’s degree M2 Robotics, assistance and mobility at UVSQ, Paris-Saclay University in 2020. Juan carried out his PhD studies in assistive Robotics at the Laboratory of Systems Engineering of Versailles (LISV) and obtained his PhD degree at the university of Paris-saclay in early 2025. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the ESME engineering school in Ivry-sur-seine.

Publications

• J. Martinez Rocha, F. Pennino, C. Dubois, E. Monacelli, and M. Gabbrielli, Contrastive learning for body gesture detection during Adapted Physical, 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), pp. 381-386, Pasadena, CA, USA, August 2024.
• J. Callupe Luna, J. Martinez Rocha, E. Monacelli, L. Dutrievoz, S. Delaplace, and Y. Hirata, Volting, a novel dancing wheelchair with augmented mobility: Pushing lateral inclinations, 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), pp. 1-6, Singapore, Singapore, September 2023.
• J. Martinez Rocha, J. Callupe Luna, E. Monacelli, G. Foggea, M. Passedouet, and S. Delaplace, Dance Gestures Recognition for Wheelchair Control, 2023 8th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE), pp. 84-90, Niigata, Japan, April 2023.
• J. Callupe, J. Martinez, E. Monacelli, G. Foggea, Y. Hirata, and S. Delaplace, WISP, wearable inertial sensor for online wheelchair propulsion detection, MDPI Sensors, Issue 22, p. 4221, 2022.

PhD in Computer Sciences

• 2021-2025

  PhD in robotics

  University Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
• 2019-2020

  M2 Robotics, assistance and mobility

  UVSQ, Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France
• 2013-2019

  Electronics Engineering

  National Technological Institute of Mexico, Durango, Mexico

• Since 2025

  Postdoctoral position

  ESME, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
• 2020-2021

  Researcher engineer

  LISV, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France