The Speakers

The speakers

Here is the list of the workshop speakers:

Irfan Hussain
Domenico Prattichizzo
Antonio Frisoli
Josie Hughes
Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani
Kaspar Althoefer
Dangxiao Wang
Oussama Khatib
Sajid Nisar

Irfan Hussain

Bio: Dr. Irfan Hussain an Assistant Professor in Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is author of one book, more than 70 articles and 3 inventions. He is Associate Editor of proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. Research Topic Editor on "Wearable Robots and Sensorimotor Interfaces: Augmentation, Rehabilitation, Assistance or substitution of human sensorimotor function" (ID 21096), frontiers in Neurorobotics. Guest Editor, Special Issue "Design and Development of Vision-Based Tactile Sensors" A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE/ RAS ICRA-23, ICRA-22, ICRA-21, RAS/EMBS BioRob-18 and. He received his PhD degree in robotics from University of Siena, Italy. He was a post doctorate researcher at Robotics Institute at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He also worked as a post doctorate at Siena robotics and system lab (SIRSLab), Italy. He received his 2nd Level Master degree in Automatica and Control Technologies from Politecnico Di Torino, Italy. He got MS degree in Mechatronics Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. He received BE mechatronics engineering from Air University, Pakistan. He worked as research assistant in Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, from 2012 to 2013. He was visiting researcher in Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF), Italy. He worked as assistant manager engineering in Trojans Pakistan from 2008 to 2011. His research interests include: Marine Robotics, Healthcare Robotics and Industrial Robotics.

Oussama Khatib

Bio: Oussama Khatib, Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from Sup'Aero, Toulouse, France. His current research is in human-centered robotics, human motion synthesis, humanoid robotics, dynamic simulation, haptic interfaces, and human-friendly robot design. This builds upon a large body of work pursued over the past 25 years and published in over 200 contributions in the field. Professor Khatib was Program Chair of ICRA2000 and editor of The Robotics Review. He served as director of the Stanford Computer Forum and is currently president of the International Foundation of Robotics Research and editor of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Professor Khatib is an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, and a recipient of the JARA Award.

Antonio Frisoli

Bio: Antonio Frisoli (Eng., PhD) is an academic and Italian scientist. Full Professor of Robotics and Engineering Mechanics at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa-Italy, where he is the Director of the Human-Robot Interaction area at PERCRO laboratory of TeCIP Institute and the President of Artes 4.0 Italian National Competence Center on Robotics and Industry 4.0, that gathers more than 130 italian industries in the area of industry 4.0 enabling technologies. He received his PhD (2002) with honours in Industrial and Information Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy and the MSc (1998) in Mechanical Engineering, minor Robotics, from University of Pisa-Italy

Josie Hughes

Bio: Josie Hughes has recently started at EPFL setting up the CREATE Lab which focuses on developing computational design and fabrication methods for robotics. The lab has a specific focus on manipulation, and robotics for food and agricultural applications. She previously completed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD focused on developing robots which utilize embodied mechanics and sensory coordination for advanced capabilities. Following on from this, she worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Distributed Robotics Lab, MIT. At MIT she worked on computational design methods, wearable technologies and new novel robot fabrication methods. Her work has been published in Science Robotics, Nature Machine Intelligence and Soft Robotics amongst others. Additionally, she has lead teams which have won over 5 International Robotics Competitions.

Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani

Bio: Amir (Amir Masoud) is an Associate Professor at the University of Surrey (Computer Science). He leads the Intelligent Manipulation Lab which focuses on robotic grasping and manipulation, teleoperation, Agri-food robotics, robot learning, and haptic and tactile sensors. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused on Robotics and Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

Kaspar Althoefer

Bio: Professor Kaspar Althoefer is a systems engineer, leading research on Robotics at Queen Mary University of London. After graduating with a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Technology Aachen, Germany, and obtaining a PhD in Robot Motion Planning from Kings College London, he joined the Kings Robotics Group in 1996 as a Lecturer. Made a Senior Lecturer in 2006, he was promoted to Reader and Professor in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In April 2016, he joined Queen Mary as full Professor of Robotics Engineering.

His current research interests are in the areas of robot autonomy, soft robotics, modelling of tool-environment interaction dynamics, tactile sensing and neuro-fuzzy-based sensor signal classification with applications in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, rehabilitation, assistive technologies and human-robot interactions in the manufacturing environment.

Dangxiao Wang

Bio: Dangxiao Wang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2004. He is currently a Professor and the Deputy Director with the State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China. His research interests include haptic device, haptic rendering, and medical robotic systems. He had been the chair of Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics (IEEE TCH) from 2014 to 2017.

Domenico Prattichizzo

Bio:Prof. Domenico Prattichizzo IEEE Fellow. Professor of Haptics and Robotics at University of Siena; Senior Scientist of the IIT in Genova; Co-founder of two startups: WEART (weart.it) and EXISTO (existo.tech) on wearable haptics and wearable robotics; IEEE Fellow; Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Haptics; President of EuroHaptics Society. Vice-Rector for Technology Transfer at University of Siena. Co-founder of the Italian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Machine. Human and robotic hands, along with haptic perception and the art of manipulating objects, have polarized his research, which is increasingly oriented towards highly wearable haptics for virtual and augmented reality. He recently is interested to applications of mechanobiology and robotics..

Marcia O' Malley

Bio: Marcia O’Malley is the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. She received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University. Her research is in the areas of haptics and robotic rehabilitation, with a focus on the design and control of wearable robotic devices for training and rehabilitation. She has twice received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University. O’Malley was a recipient of both the ONR Young Investigator award and the NSF CAREER Award. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Sajid Nisar

Bio: Dr. Sajid Nisar earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Science with majors in Robotics from Kyoto University. His research interests include the development of robots for surgery, innovative mechanism design, haptics for medical and mobility applications, and soft manipulator design. Previously, Dr. Nisar was a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research. He also served as team lead in a nationally-funded project on realization of a surgical robotic trainer and simulator and senior mechanical engineer at the National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad. He received Japan’s JSPS Fellowship for Young Scientists, and Kyoto University’s GSS Fellowship for global survivability studies. He was awarded with IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter’s Young Award 2019 for his research published at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’19). With numerous other distinctions and achievements in his career, he also holds the Engineering Dean’s Award 2018 from Kyoto University.

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