Abdel-Nasser Sharkawy is an associate Professor at Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, South Valley University (SVU), Qena, Egypt. Sharkawy graduated with a first-class honors B.Sc. in May 2013 and received his M.Sc. degree in April 2016 from the Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, SVU, Egypt. In March 2020, Sharkawy received his Ph.D. degree from Robotics Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece. His PhD was entitled “Intelligent Control and Impedance Adjustment for Efficient Human-Robot Cooperation”. Sharkawy has vast experience teaching the under-graduate and postgraduate courses in the field of Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering and has published more than 80 papers in international scientific journals, book chapters, and international scientific conferences. He serves as reviewer for roughly 60 journals and 10 conferences. His research areas of interest include robotics, human–robot interaction, mechatronic systems, neural networks, machine learning, and control and automation.
