Zhangchi Ding received the B.S. degree in optoelectrical engineering from Shenzhen University, Guangdong, China, in 2013, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Central Florida (UCF), FL, USA, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He was a Graduate Research Assistant in the ECE Dept of UCF from May 2016 to December 2019. Since December 2019, he has worked in the robotics industry as a Robotics Software Engineer.

Amirhossein Jabalameli joined the Assistive Robotics Lab at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Fall 2013 and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from UCF in 2015 and 2019, respectively. His research interests include robotics vision, 3D perception, and object manipulation. Since 2018, he has been affiliated with the Automated Driving, ZF Group in Detroit.

Mushtaq Al-Mohammed was a PhD student in EE at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, FL, USA. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq, in 2001 and 2009 respectively. After receiving his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UCF in 2018 and 2022, respectively, he returned to his home nation of Iraq to serve as an engineering faculty member. His interests are in the area of robotics, especially, assistive robotics, modeling of human factors during HRI, and control system design to facilitate situational awareness in robots.

Aman Behal received the 5-year M.Tech degree in EE from IIT Bombay, India, in 1996 and a Ph.D. in controls and robotics from Clemson University, Clemson, SC, in 2001. In 2006, he joined the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL where he is currently a Professor jointly with the ECE Department and the NanoScience Technology Center. His research interests include assistive robotics and nonlinear controls. He is a co-founder of the Disabilities, Aging, and Technology (DAT) faculty cluster at UCF. He has previously served as an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.