Awards
- Best application paper award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan for the paper titled "Soft tissue characterisation using a novel medical percussion device with acoustic analysis and neural networks", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), 2022
- Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation, Imperial College London, 2018
- Chartered Engineer, IET, 2018
- EPSRC impact acceleration award, Imperial College London, 2017
External Positions
- External Examiner, External Examiner at the University of York for the MSc Intelligent Robotics delivered by the school of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, 2022 - 2026
- Chair, Sponsorships and Exhibitions Committee Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023, 2021 - 2023
- Editor, Editorial Board, Frontiers Soft Robotics Special Issue on Rising Stars, Frontiers, 2020
- Editor, Editorial Board, International Journal or Robotics Research Special Issue on RSS 2020, International Journal of Robotics Research, 2020 - 2021
- One of the 3 founding executive committee members, UK RAS Strategic Task Group on Soft Robotics, UK RAS network, 2020 - 2021
- Regional chair (Associate editor), Editorial Board, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, Robotics: Science and Systems, 2019
- Associate Editor, Editorial Board, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robotcs and Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2014
- Associate editor, Editorial Board, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2014
- Associate editor, Editorial Board, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Fuji Press, 2014
Membership of Professional Bodies
- MIED, Institute of Engineering Designers, 2018
- MIET, IET, 2017
- Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE, 2016
Commercial Spinoffs
- Permia Sensing (pvt) Ltd, Founding Director/CTO, We offer a field testing service to detect Red Palm Weevil larvae growing in coconut palm trees within the first 2-weeks of infestation. The testing service uses state of the art IoT solutions based on Cloud Coputing and Machine Learning developed at the Morph Lab of Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London in the UK, 2021
- Permia Sensing Ltd, Executive Director, Permia Sensing provides precision agriculture solutions to coconut palm growers. It uses acoustic data collected from trees together with other data such as multispectral images and historical data of hydration and fertilising to provide advice to improve the crop level., 2021
Fellowships
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy, 2015
- Radcliffe Fellow, Harvard University, 2007 - 2008
Editorial Boards
- Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, Associate Editor
- Nature Scientific Reports, Editorial board
- Frontiers Soft Robotics, Editorial board member
- International Journal of Robotics Research - special issue on RSS 2020, Editor
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Associate Editor
- IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Associate editor
- Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), Regional chair
- Frontiers Soft Robotics, Editorial board of a special issue on "Current Advances in Soft Robotics: Best Papers from RoboSoft 2018"
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Associate editor
- Frontiers Soft Robotics, Associate editor
- Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Associate editor