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Dr. Ghulam E Mustafa Abro, Senior Member, IEEE.

Research Unit for Robophilosophy and Integrative Robotics

Aarhus University, Aarhus C, 8000 Denmark.

Listed among the 2026 Stanford/Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists, I bring an international and interdisciplinary perspective to intelligent machines, from developing autonomous systems to exploring the broader dimensions of robotics. I am a Senior Member of IEEE and a Research Scientist at Aarhus University’s Research Unit for Robophilosophy and Integrative Social Robotics in Denmark. My career spans more than nine years of research and teaching across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, including postdoctoral appointments at KFUPM and Aarhus University. My work connects engineering theory with practical autonomy across robotics, control, swarm intelligence, and AI-driven vision. Recognised with the IEEE RAS Peter B. Luh Memorial Young Research Award and KFUPM’s Best Research Excellence Award, I advance robotics through interdisciplinary inquiry, international collaboration, and a commitment to sharing knowledge across borders and academic communities.

Long Biography – Born in Pakistan in 1992, I have built an international academic career spanning Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, bringing together more than nine years of experience in teaching, research, and collaboration. As a Senior Member of IEEE, my work centres on robotics, autonomous systems, and control, with a commitment to connecting theoretical advances with practical engineering solutions. My international academic journey began with an HEC Travel Grant that supported a visit to the United Kingdom in 2018. From 2020 to 2023, I pursued my PhD in Malaysia while serving as a Research Assistant. During this period, an Erasmus+ Research Mobility placement in France in 2022 broadened my research perspective and strengthened my experience of working across academic cultures. I subsequently joined King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Aviation and Space Exploration, with an academic affiliation in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. This appointment deepened my research in mechatronic systems, dynamics, control, prototyping, and stabilisation, while opening opportunities for scholarly engagement in Bahrain and Muscat, Oman. In September 2024, I received the Late Prof. Peter B. Luh Memorial Young Research Award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society at IEEE CASE 2024 in Bari, Italy, recognising my contributions to robotics and control. The visit also offered an opportunity to explore Vatican City. In August 2025, I received the Best Research Excellence Award at KFUPM’s Centre for Aviation and Space Exploration, presented by Dr. Charles Elachi, Distinguished Professor at Caltech and former Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. My research career later brought me to Denmark, where I served as a postdoctoral researcher in the Artificial Intelligence in Robotics Laboratory within Aarhus University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I now serve as a Research Scientist in the university’s Research Unit for Robophilosophy and Integrative Social Robotics (RISR). My research interests span swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, robotic motion planning, and AI-driven vision, supporting the development of autonomous systems and interdisciplinary robotics research. During my first year at Aarhus University, I further expanded my European collaborations through exchanges with control engineering experts at the European Control Conference 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland. I also travelled to Ireland to present RISR-affiliated research at University College Dublin and Maynooth University, strengthening connections with researchers across institutions. Alongside these academic milestones, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services approved my EB-2 National Interest Waiver petition based on my contributions to autonomous systems, AI-driven robotics, and control.

Regular Reviewer for following Journals & Conferences

Journals

IEEE Access, Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control.
MDPI Drones, Electronics, Actuator, Vehicles, Sensors, Biomimetics, Aerospace and Process
Hindawi-Wiley - Mathematical Problems in Engineering and Asian Journal of Control, International Journal for Aerospace Engineering
InderSciences: International Journal of Modeling, Identification and Control
Springer - Discover Robotics, Discover Internet of Things, Scientific Reports, Wireless Personal Communications, Multibody System Dynamics, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems
Elsevier - Applied Mathematical Modelling, Expert Systems with Applications
IET Computer Vision
Taylor and Francis: Automatika-Journal for Control, Measurement, Electronics, Computing and Communications
Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IJEECS)
Measurement and Control & Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Measurement and Control by SAGE
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction by Taylor & Francis

Conferences

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)- Flagship
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) - Flagship
IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) - Flagship
IEEE Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT) - Flagship
IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (ROMA) - Flagship
IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (IICAIET)
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC)

Current and Past Leadership Roles

Invited as Visiting Researcher for the Special Interest Group (SIG): Advanced Control System and Computing Research Group (ACSCRG), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Penang Branch, Malaysia from 1st August 2025 to 31st July 2026 (1 Year).
Invited as Visiting Researcher at High Performance and Intelligent Systems (HiPIS) research centre at Universitat de Valencia, Spain since 14th May 2025.
International Academic Collaborator at Smart City Lab under National Centre for Robotics & Automation (NCRA), NED UET, Karachi Sindh Pakistan.
Invited as Visiting Researcher at Laboratory of Control & Automation (LCA) at the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology at the Politecnico di Bari, Italy since 27 Dec 2024.
Invited as Guest Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia since 4th June 2024 under Collaborative Teaching Program.
Invited as Judge for IEEEDuino Region 8 International Competition 2024 and 2025.
Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE ICIESTR Conference Oman 2024.
Invited as Judge for IEEE Darrel Chong Award 2023
Secretary, IEEE ROMA Flagship Conference Malaysia 2021-2022.
International Academic and Research Collaborator in National Centre for Robotics & Automation (NCRA) - CMS Lab, Mehran UET, Jamshoro Sindh Pakistan (Since 2021).

Professional Membership & Volunteer Activities

Senior Member IEEE having No: 96507563 affiliated with Region 10 and Malaysia Section
Graduate Engineer at Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) since 15th March 2022 with membership number G2209814A
Registered Engineer at Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) since 2015 with membership number Electro/23787
Best Volunteer Student awarded by IEEE Malaysia Section (2021)
Chair of IEEE UTP Student Branch (2022) and Secretary for IEEE UTP Student Branch (2020 and 2021- Two consecutive Years)
Chair Professional Activities at IEEE Student Activities Committee for IEEE Malaysia Section (2020 and 2021).
Appointed as Treasurer IEEE Young Professionals Karachi Section from 2018 -2019
Senior Vice President, for Postgraduate Students at EEE Department Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia (2021 and 2022)

For Mutual Collaboration, guidance in simulation and opting as external supervisor one contact on:

Mustafa.abro@ieee.org