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Jae Sung Son is a pioneering researcher in the fields of haptics, tactile sensing, and teleoperated manipulation, with a career dedicated to bridging the gap between human touch and robotic systems. His most influential work, "Remote palpation technology" (1995), with 295 citations, introduced a groundbreaking system that replicates a surgeon's sense of touch for remote diagnosis, enabling the detection of anatomical structures and pathologies through tactile feedback—a foundational contribution to minimally invasive surgery. Son further advanced robotic dexterity with "A tactile sensor for localizing transient events in manipulation" (2002, 121 citations), developing a piezoelectric stress rate sensor that captures dynamic contact events, enhancing robot sensitivity during object handling. His "A tactile shape sensing and display system for teleoperated manipulation" (2002, 94 citations) integrated tactile array sensors with a display, allowing human operators to feel pressure distributions from remote robot fingertips, a key step toward intuitive teleoperation. Through comparative studies on contact sensor localization (1996, 2002), Son demonstrated the superiority of tactile arrays over force-torque sensing for precise manipulation tasks. His work has profoundly impacted surgical robotics and human-robot interaction, establishing him as a leader in tactile feedback technologies.