CURRICULUM VITAE
A full PDF version of my CV can be downloaded here.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science, 2020, University of Hamburg, Germany
M.Sc. Computer Science, 2014, University of Malaya, Malaysia
B.Sc. Informatics Engineering, 2011, University of Damascus, Syria
WORK EXPERIENCE
2024 – Present: New Frontiers Fellow/Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Southampton, UK
2020 – 2023: Postdoctoral Associate, University of Hamburg, Germany
2016 – 2020: Doctoral Research Associate, University of Hamburg, Germany
2015 – 2016: Researcher, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
2013 – 2014: Research Assistant, University of Malaya, Malaysia
SERVICE
Editorial Board Member:
Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics: 2024 – 2026
Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Editorial Board of Robot Learning and Evolution: 2023 – Present
Frontiers in Neurorobotics: 2023 –Present
Program Committee Member:
The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 19-24, 2024
IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Abu Dhabi ,UAE, October 14-18, 2024
The 32nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Crete, Greece, September 26–29, 2023
IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 29 May – 2 June 2023
IEEE RAS Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems (MRSSS 2016), Singapore, June 6–10, 2016
Reviewer (full list of verified peer reviews is available on Web of Science):
International Journal of Robotics Research
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Nature Scientific Reports
Neurocomputing
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Neural Computing and Applications
Expert Systems with Applications
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017, 2021, 2022, 2024)
IEEE Intl. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2022)