Dr. Mohammad Haroon Yousaf

Title: Swam Robotics and Edge AI

Abstract:

Robots are being introduced in variety of real-world processes and environments. Similarly, the robot swarms are emerging area in the robotics world. These robot swarms intend to be effective in many application areas e.g. surveillance and monitoring, disaster management, entertainment, environmental and climate change etc. The swarm of robot needs to be intelligent enough to made real-time decision and this emerges the need of artificial intelligence algorithms to be deployed on these robot swarms. The Edge AI primarily addresses the deployment of AI algorithms on the edge devices to be deployed on robotic agents.

Biography:

Muhammad Haroon Yousaf is currently working as a Professor of Computer Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology Taxila. He is the Director/Principal Investigator of Swarm Robotics Lab under National Centre of Robotics & Automation (NCRA). Currently, he is also looking after the Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) as Director.  He is actively involved in computer vision research particularly in the areas of object detection, object recognition, scene understanding, action/activity recognition, Robotics and multi-modal recognition. He is also working as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video Technology (TCSVT), and Academic Editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering journal. He is the recipient of Best University Teacher Award by Higher Education Commission for the years 2012-2013.