Dr. Ing. Risto Kõiva

Risto is the administrative head of the Bielefeld Excellence Cluster "Cognitive Interaction Technology" (CITEC) workshops. In 2000, Risto received a diploma in Computer Control and Automation (cum laude) from the Faculty of Information Technology, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) . He received his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing., summa cum laude) in Computer Science from Bielefeld University (Germany) in 2014. Risto's fields of interest are tactile sensing, mechatronics of intelligent interactive systems and assistive technologies.