Dr Sameer Kishore

DBI - Associate Professor in Robotics

Sameer Kishore

  • School Middlesex University - Overseas Campuses

  • Department Dubai Campus

  • Location Dubai

Research activities

My main research interests deal with investigating the behavioural, attitudinal and implicit effects of having an illusion of body ownership over a virtual or robotic body that’s different from one’s own.


Current Teaching

My main teaching and research interests involve humanoid robots, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR), embodiment and body-ownership illusions. I teach modules related to emerging technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and research methods across various undergraduate programmes in the department of computer engineering and informatics, as well as computer vision, mobile robotics, software engineering modules, in addition to coordinating the dissertation module for the postgraduate robotics programme. 


Biography

I’m currently the campus programme coordinator for the MSc. Robotics programme and senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, Middlesex University Dubai. I also head the VRX Lab at the university. 

I completed my PhD at the EventLab, University of Barcelona with Prof. Mel Slater, where I worked on developing systems that allowed me to investigate the implications of body ownership over remotely located robots and applied this technology to various real-world situations. I was awarded a three-year pre-doctorate FI grant from the Government of Catalonia, Spain for carrying out my PhD.

Following that, I spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at the EventLab, where I worked on a research project studying the effect of appearance of a virtual body on the higher-level cognitive functioning and implicit behaviours in immersive virtual reality.

Prior to moving to Dubai, I was the Head of Medical Rehabilitation and VR Innovation at Virtual Bodyworks, Barcelona, where I was involved in developing commercial VR applications for tackling personal and societal issues, such as domestic violence, racial bias and treatment of phobias.

I have an MSc in Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging from University College London, UK and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in computer science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Dubai.

Qualifications

Title: B.E. (Hons) Computer Science Engineering

Institution: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Dubai


Title: MSc. (Hons) Computer Graphics, Vision, and Imaging

Institution: University College London, UK


Title: PhD, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology

Institution: University of Barcelona


Title: Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education

Institution: Middlesex University Dubai


Prizes and Awards

  • Innovation Award for Creating Impact on Global Challenges, Middlesex University Dubai,

    • Publications

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