Dr. Redwan Alqasemi earned his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 1994, 2001, and 2007, consecutively. He is currently a research professor at the University of South Florida’s Mechanical Engineering Department and a lead researcher at the Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation and Robotics Technologies (CARRT). Dr. Alqasemi is a senior member of the IEEE society, a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a board member of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board. He served as a panelist for several NSF/NIH programs and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Rehabilitation Research & Development Service (RRDS) program. Dr. Alqasemi is an Associate Editor for the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), and a committee member for the IEEE Control Systems Society on Intelligent Control. The most recent keynote speeches he delivered at the 2023 Smart Manufacturing Summit in the United Kingdom were about Artificial Intelligence and Automation and at the 2024 International Conference on Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering in Germany, which was about advances in Rehabilitation Robotics. His research interests include robotics and assistive technologies, human–robot interaction and controls, virtual/augmented reality simulation for workforce training, haptic interfaces, and brain–computer interfaces. Dr. Alqasemi holds six full US patents and several provisional patents.
