It is my
passion to work with robots.
I dream of a world where humans and robots live in harmony. |
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Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
Dr. Vadakkepat, an
Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore is the
founder secretary of the Federation of International Robot-soccer
Association (FIRA -
www.fira.net) and currently its General Secretary.
He is also the founder director and chief mentor to an entrepreneurial
start-up “Robhatah Robotic Solutions” at Singapore [www.robhatah.com].
His initiative among others includes an international conference on
Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS)
which is being held successfully since 2001. He was the general chair to
the FIRA RoboWorld Cup and Congress Singapore 2005
[http://fira.nus.edu.sg].
Dr. Vadakkepat is an associate editor of the International Journal of
Humanoid Robotics. His Humanoid robot and robot soccer teams have
consistently won several international prizes. The latest include a
first prize and overall championship in Humanoid robot soccer at the FIRA Robot World Cup (Germany 2006, Singapore 2005 and Austria 2003), First Prize in Singapore Robotic
Games (2004) and Second prize in FIRA 2004.
He was elected as the Secretary to the IEEE Singapore Section for
the year 2005. He has served as Technical Activity Coordinator to the
IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) in 2001-2002. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India.
He is actively involved in various technical forums including
conferences, symposia and robotic competitions. He has been featured in
several prominent newspapers and TV shows in India, Singapore, USA,
Korea, Spain and France.
Dr. Vadakkepat received his M.Tech and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of
Technology Madras, in 1989 and 1996 respectively. He was a Lecturer at
the Regional Engineering College Calicut (now
National Institute of Technology Calicut), India from 1991 to 1996.
While pursuing Post-Doctoral studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST, 1996-1998), he was awarded the Korea
Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship. Since 1999, he is
with the National University of Singapore.
His research interest include
Distributed robotic systems,
Humanoid
robotics,
Biomorphs, Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers and Intelligent Control
techniques and, has publications in several leading international
journals.
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