Team Robo-Barista (with Dean Rashid Alammari) of Qatar University winning the 1st Prize to represent the State of Qatar at the 2015 Microsoft Imagine Cup (Innovation Category).
Team Robo-Barista
Our photo with US Ambassador to Qatar, Mrs Dana Smith, at the Microsoft HQ in Doha.
@Microsoft Campus in Redmond
Selfie with Bill Gates and gang
Good news: There's coffee!
Very good news: We're in the news!
In the news @QU
Resistance is futile!
Coffee, anyone?
Paro at work
Paro (renamed as Snowflake) deployed at the Child Development Center, Rumailah Hospital.
Autism: Love needs no words
World Autism Awareness Day 2015 at Aspire, Doha.
World Autism Awareness Day 2015 at Qatar University.
@NASA!
As a kid, I used to build mock-ups of Saturn V. Here's the real one!
@Boeing
First time I've been to a production plant with more than $10 billion worth of "products" at one time.
@Georgia Tech
Guest lecture at GT, summer of 2015.
Mentor for Team Qatar
Qatar University represented Qatar at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2014 Pan Arab competitions
Work or play?
The day after the award
What does your father do?
Occupation talk at Marie's preschool (with Paro).
Answer to the question: co-worker
SR Nathan, President of Singapore
Pres. Nathan's visit to the NUS Social Robotics Lab
You know him, of course :)
Just a photo op with Nick Vujicic at a hotel lobby in Singapore.
"I was there" awards 2014, Sydney
ICSR: We were there!
That was a fun conference!
International Conference on Social Robotics, Sydney, 2014. See you all in Paris for ICSR 2015!
Working mode
The general chair (Sam Ge) and the program chair at work (me) during ICSR 2012, Chengdu, China.
ICSR 2012 Program Chairs
with Mary Anne Williams (UTS) and Reid Simmons (CMU)
ICSR: "I was there" awards
Here's a fun conference award that I 'invented' for all our Social Robotics conferences. "I was there" award is for those who have attended past ICSR conferences. The award is a souvenir that best represents the host city.
Conference organizers
(L-R) Yeow Kee Tan, Haizhou Li, Sam Ge and me :)
Multi-cultural immersion
ICSR 2010, Singapore
Professor Bruno Siciliano's 2014 QU visit
Design Day - Fall 2014
Awards ceremonies for the best projects at the QU Mechanical Engineering Department (with the students and Prof Elsadig Mahdi, Head of Department).
CIS-RAM 2013
Presenting gifts to Professor Nitish Thakor (JHU/NUS), the conference key note speaker.
CIS-RAM 2013 post-conference
I was general co-chair of IEEE CIS-RAM 2013. Here's where we had our post-conference workshop.
Yes, that's a workshop meeting
I was general co-chair of IEEE CIS-RAM 2013. Here's where we had our post-conference workshop.
IEEE CIS-RAM family
CIS-RAM 2010 conference organizers' outing at Krabi, Thailand
Post-workshop photo
IEEE IROS 2014 at Chicago.
Conference banquet
A grand banquet dinner at the IEEE CIS-RAM conference at Qingdao, China (with Professors Tong Heng Lee and Marcelo Ang).
Farewell lunch for me
My colleagues at NUS.
Research discussions
Reunion at BioRob 2012, Rome.
Duty calls
Students' commencement exercises at NUS
He's the (real) one
The real Prof Ishiguro (on my right). He left his doppelgänger somewhere else. Got stuck at immigration perhaps?
"My daddy is on TV!"
Photo of my TV appearance when the Stars of Science program was shown in the Pan-Arabian region.
TV-radio science news program
Launch of the promo video (NUS-ECE)
This was the official launch of the NUS_ECE outreach video. That's me on the screen :)
1st Year Engineering Experience
Human team-robot team collaboration
Learning is fun
My 1st year computer engineering students learning introductory circuits and programming at NUS.
Human touch or not?
Dexter robot at the ARTS Lab
Leo's first conference attendance
Team Robo-Barista
Our photo with US Ambassador to Qatar, Mrs Dana Smith, at the Microsoft HQ in Doha.