Awards & Grants

Grants:

• • • Principal investigator (PI): UAEU Startup grant, “Neuroengineering for Swarm Intelligence: Developing a multidimensional brain computer interface for controlling multiple drones using electrical bio-signals (human thought and eye movements) to guide the quadcopters wirelessly”.  400.000 AED.

    • Co-PI: UAEU Centre-Based grant “Self-Reliant Task-Oriented Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for Missions in Harsh Environment: The case of Mars”. 490.500 AED

    • Co-PI: UAEU Start-up grant, “Executive dysfunction in overweight and obese children and adolescents: Moving from observation to intervention by Physical-Executive Dual-task Training”. 400.000 AED.

    • PI: Linkage grant, “Multidimensional Brain Computer Interface Applications: Controlling an Additional Hand/Arm Using Brain Activity for Enhancing Human Abilities to Interact with Complex Environment”. 18.855 AED.

    • PI: SURE Plus grant, “EEG Controlled Gaming using SSVEP-based Brain Computer Interface”. 57.500 AED.

• Doctoral scholarship award from Japan International Cooperation Agency (four years scholarship, 2011-2015).

• Nominated for BIOMAG2018 Young Investigator Awards (one of the 10 individuals selected as finalists, check this: http://www.biomag2018.org/awards/).

• Award of MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 MENA for the year 2018 (Click Link for reading the Arabic version and Here for reading the English version). 

This picture was taken at #EmTechMENA  event, Dubai 2018. 

• Our team won the first place of Brain Computer Interface Designers Hackathon at IEEE SMC 2018 (Miyazaki, Japan) for developing EEG-based Brainio Bros game control in 24h  (Click Link for more details).

This picture was taken at #IEEE SMC conference, Japan 2018.

• My Emirati female students (Mind Chasers team) won the 3rd place of Brain Computer Interface Designers Hackathon at IEEE SMC 2019 (Bari, Italy) for developing EEG-based drone control in 24h  (Click Link for more details).

This picture was taken at #IEEE SMC conference, Italy 2019.

• I was invited as a keynote speaker at 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2019. My talk was about the potential of connecting human brain to machines: MEG-based Brain-Geminoid Interface (Nov, 2019).

This picture was taken at #IEEE AICCSA conference, UAE 2019.

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