Dr. Elyse D. Z. Chase

Assistant Professor

Office Location N235 Engineering Building 1

Email echase [at] cougarnet.uh.edu

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University

M.S., Stanford University

B.S.E., University of Pennsylvania

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher, Rice University

Professional and Scientific Affiliations

ASME, IEEE, ACM, SWE, Tau Beta Pi

Courses Taught

MECE 3338: Dynamics & Control of Mechanical Systems

Research Interests

multisensory interaction, human-centered robotics, cognitive modeling, human perception, haptic feedback, and mechatronic design

Awards & Honors

Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering 2024

Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow 2023 - 2025

NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2017 - 2020

Goldwater Scholar 2016

Chase E.D.Z., O’Malley M.K. (2026) Understanding Contact from Vision, Sound, and Touch with Trimodal Alignment. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2026.
Chase E.D.Z., Israr A., Schepmann M.S., O’Malley M.K., Hartcher-O’Brien J. (2026) Information Transfer on the Wrist: Signal Variations from Single to Multiple Tactors. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 15(5): 1-39.
Chase E.D.Z., Smith K., Follmer S., Gerstenberg T. (2026) Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling Causality. Cognitive Psychology, 165: 101814.
Chase E.D.Z., Smith K., Follmer S., Gerstenberg T. (2026) Seeing, Hearing, and Feeling Causality. Cognitive Psychology, 165: 101814.
Chase E.D.Z., Sullivan D.H., O’Malley M.K. (2025) Hands-On or Hands-Off? Active Touch Influences Multisensory Perception of Referred Haptics. In IEEE World Haptics Conference.
Chase E.D.Z., O’Malley M.K. (2025) Modeling Physical Perception in Virtual Interactions. In IEEE RO-MAN International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
Chase E.D.Z., O’Malley M.K. (2024) The Interplay of Vision and Referred Haptic Feedback in VR Environments. In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications. Springer International Publishing.