Craig Shultz
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Shultz is an assistant professor and entrepreneur focused on making haptics more accessible, with 13 years of experience bridging academic research and product development. He co-founded Fluid Reality and previously led R&D and haptic design at Tanvas, translating tactile research into commercial interfaces and hardware. His postdoctoral work at Carnegie Mellon’s Future Interface Group reinforces a research-first approach to novel user interfaces while his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern underpins deep expertise in mechano-electrical systems. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he combines startup grit (co-founding the TPad Tablet project) with institutional rigor, uniquely positioning him to spin lab innovations into real-world haptic products.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at University of TulsaUniversity of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern UniversityGithub contributions (4)
TPadTabletProject/TPadSoftware
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
TPadTabletProject/Android-Applications
Apr 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year 6 months
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