Prof. Dr. Karsten Berns

University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Head of Research Group in Robot Systems

Prof. Dr. Karsten Berns received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. As head of the IDS (Interactive Diagnosis and Service Systems) department of the FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Karlsruhe (till 2003) he examined adaptive control concepts for different types of service robots. Since 2003 he is a full professor at the University of Kaiserslautern.

His present research activities are realization of reliable, complex autonomous robotic systems. The main application area is off-road robotics, in which autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles like small trucks, excavators, harvesters, tractors, and rescue robots are under development.

Prof. Berns is a member of the IEEE, the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and the CLAWAR Association. He is a member of the executive committee of the German Robotics Association (DGR) and is leader of the technical committee for robotic systems of the GI. He has also served as a Dean of the department of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern (2007-2010). Currently, he is the spokesperson of the Center for Commercial Vehicle Technology (ZNT) at the University of Kaiserslautern.

Dr. Haider Ali

John Hopkins University, USA

Assistant Research Professor

Dr. Syed Atif Mehdi

Director, Center Of Robotics

Assistant Professor, University of Central Punjab, Lahore.

Syed Atif Mehdi received his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan in the year 2001. For the Bachelor Project, he worked for 8 months at NetSol International in the year 2000 as an internee. After completing BS, he joined NetSol as a "Software Engineer" and worked there for almost 7 months. Afterwards, he completed his Master in Computer Science Degree with specialization in artificial intelligence from National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He served as a lecturer at University of Management and Technology till 2007.

He was awarded scholarship by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan to pursue his PhD from Germany in the year 2007. He joined the Robotics Research Lab in October 2007 and completed his PhD in the year 2014. During his PhD, his focus was on learning the presence of an elderly person in the home environment using daily routine of the person. Afterwards, he worked as a Post-Doc in the group and was responsible for the development of an autonomous Oct-copter that can perform various inspection tasks. Currently he is employeed at University of Central Punjab.

Zuhair Zafar

Research Assistant, Robotics Research Group, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Zuhair Zafar is a PhD student in the department of computer science at TU Kaiserslautern since August 2014. His area of research includes recognition of human emotions and gestures in context to Human-Robot-Interaction. He graduated with Electrical Engineering in his bachelor in 2011 from Government College University, Lahore. He completed his master in Computer Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2013.

Dr. Malik Jahan Khan

Associate Professor, Namal Institute, Mianwali

Dr. Malik Jahan Khan did his Ph.D. from LUMS and served as Dean of Computer Science department at Namal Institute. His research is mostly on Agriculture sector of Pakistan.

Dr. Salman Aslam

Assistant Professor, NU Tech University, Islamabad

Dr. Salman Aslam has worked with LUMS and NUST to conduct research on robotic control. He recently joined the newly established NU Tech university.