Associate Professor, ECE, NUS, Singapore
He is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore & founder secretary of Federation of Int. Robot-soccer Association & was its General Secretary (2000-16). His contributions in FIRA has led to several start-ups in robotics & embedded systems. He chaired the Futurescape 2025 panel on “I, Robot” by A*STAR Singapore. He is a nominated member of the Loka Kerala Sabha (World Kerala Assembly) initiated by Govt. of Kerala, India. He is one of the resource persons in the Igniting Minds movement by Vijyana Bharathi India which is a programme enabling students to shed conventions and think out of the box. He has produced a full length feature film in Malayalam language which has received accolades at international film festivals. He is the Editor-In-Chief for the Springer Reference Book on Humanoid Robotics. He is an associate editor of the Int. J. of Humanoid Robotics. He is an associate editor of the Int. J. of Humanoid Robotics. He was the general chair to FIRA Robot World Cup & Congress Singapore 2005, General Program Chair to FIRA Robot World Congress Incheon 2009 & General Chair to FIRA Robot World Cup & Congress Bangalore 2010. His Humanoid robots and robot soccer teams have consistently won several international prizes. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (~2005) & a life member of the IEEE HKN honour society. He was the Secretary to the IEEE Singapore Section in 2005. He had served as Technical Activity Coordinator to the IEEE Region 10 (2001-02). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers, India. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Springer Journal of Frugal Innovation. Since 1999, he is with NUS. In 2017 August he was appointed as the Master to Pioneer House, an NUS residential college. His research interests include AI, robotics, humanoid robotics, NLP, Big Data, frugal innovation and residential life.
