Summary

Dr. Khawaja Fahad Iqbal is an Assistant Professor and Post-Graduate Program Coordinator at the Department of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. He is also serving as the Co-Principal Investigator of Intelligent Robotics Lab (IRL) at the National Center of Artificial Intelligence (NCAI), Pakistan. He is the founding CEO of Rising Automation Pvt. Ltd. which is a spin-off of NUST registered with the National Science and Technology Park (NSTP). It provides consultancy and training to the traditional institutes, local industries, and SMEs and helps them automate their products and services. Dr. Fahad obtained his PhD degree in Robotics in 2022 and MS degree in Bioengineering and Robotics degrees in 2017 from Tohoku University, Japan. He received the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship for both his MS and PhD. He completed his BE degree in Mechatronics Engineering from NUST in 2011. He is a member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and MEXT Alumni Association of Pakistan. He has authored over 20 research papers in well-reputed international journals and peer-reviewed conferences. His research interests include Collaborative Robots, Motion Planning, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, Augmented Reality, and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).

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