Meet the editors

Ahmad Hoirul Basori, received his BSc (Software Engineering) degree from Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Surabaya in 2004 and his PhD (Computer Graphics) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor, in 2011. In 2011, he was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor in the Faculty of

Computing and Information Technology Rabigh, King Abdulaziz University. He is a member of editorial boards of several international journals and has published more than 80 articles. He is also a member of IEEE, ACM SIGGRAPH, IAENG, and a senior member of IACSIT. His research interests include computer graphics, facial animation, cloth simulation, medical visualization, haptic interaction, man machine interaction and robotics.

Ali Leylavi received his PhD in Biorobotics from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa and his MSc in Mechatronics from South Tehran Branch, Azad University. During his PhD he designed and developed a bio-inspired inverse kinematic algorithm for anthropomorphic robotic manipulators, and designed and developed a unified motion planning and compliance control framework for upper-arm neuro-rehabilitation robotic task. He has also under-

taken research on design, fabrication, and modeling on soft origami actuators at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics (CMBR), IIT as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2019 he joined the Computer Vision and Robotics Division, Farm Tech Group at Wageningen University & Research and is currently working on soft adhesive grippers for delicate crop handling. His research interests include: robotics, self-learning, self-modelling, control, human-robot interaction, soft robotics, and soft actuators.

Dr. Andon V. Topalov received his MSc degree in Control Engineering from the Faculty of Information Systems, Technologies, and Automation at Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGGU) in 1979. He then received his PhD degree in Control Engineering from the Department of Automation and Remote Control at Moscow State Mining University (MGSU), Moscow, in 1984. From 1985 to 1986, he was a Research Fellow in the Re-

search Institute for Electronic Equipment, ZZU AD, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 1986, he joined the Department of Control Systems, Technical University of Sofia at the Plovdiv campus, where he is presently a Full Professor. He has been elected to the grade of IEEE senior member, awarded the gold badge of the Federation of Scientific and Technical Unions of Bulgaria, and has held long-term visiting professor/scholar positions at various institutions in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Greece, Belgium, UK, and Germany. Prof. Topalov has co-authored three books, edited three books, and authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers in conference proceedings and journals. His current research interests are in the fields of intelligent control, and smart and collaborative robots.
