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Education:

  • PH.D in (System Design Engineering) Bio Science and Engineering Lab. Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, Japan (2007-2010). Supervisor: Prof. MURASE Kazuyuki.
    Concentration: Bio-Inspired Adaptive Controller toward Integrated Autonomous Robot (Ph.D Thesis)

  • M.E in Human & Artificial Intelligent System and Robotics, University of Fukui, Japan (2005-2007).

  • B.E Degree in Computer Engineering, Ittihad University1999-2004, U.A.E.


Academic Memberships:

  • Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS)

  • IEEE

  • Computational Intelligence Society (SIC)

  • IEEE UAE Robotics and Automation Society Chapte

 

Review Committee Member:

  • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems - Journal - Elsevier

  • Frontier in Neuroscience - Journal

  • A volunteer editor in Wikipedia (English/Arabic)

  • Frontiers in ICT and Robotics and AI

  • SpringerOpen and BioMed Central journal

  • Frontiers in Psychology, section Cognitive Science 

  • Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence, elsevier. 

Assistant Professor,

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

UAE University, UAE (http://www.uaeu.ac.ae/)

Lab website: https://fady6922445.wixsite.com/irilab

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Visiting Research Scientist (2016~)
Intelligent Behavior Control Unit,

Brain Science Institute (BSI), BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center (BTCC),

RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Nagoya, Japan

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Research Scientist (2010~2016)

Intelligent Behavior Control Unit,

Brain Science Institute (BSI), BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center (BTCC),

RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Nagoya, Japan

Lab url: http://btcc.nagoya.riken.jp/

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Visiting Researcher (Dec. 2017~Jan 2018)

Human Locomotion Laboratory, Spanish National Research Council

Cajal Institute, Neural Rehabilitation Group, Madrid, Spain

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Visiting Researcher (May 2016~Sept 2016)

Haptix Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univesity of Michigan, Michigan, US.

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Email: fady["at/ mark]brain["dot/]riken["dot/]jp

Personal url: http://btcc.nagoya.riken.jp/en/members/fady.html

Key Interests:

  • Research: My research interests have focused on behaviour analysis, whether it concerns motor learning and memory (e.g., skill acquisition), or brain’s neural dynamics (e.g., cognition). My aim is to understand the brain mechanisms and the human control system toward developing advanced techniques that enhance the quality of people life (QOL): e.g., constructing an effective neurorehabilitation system, designing a smart automobile driving system, making daily activity life more effective and smarter, etc. Keywords: Autonomous Machine, Neural Computational Approach, Adaptive Controller, Learning and Memory, Behaviour Adaptation, Artificial Cognition, Neural Synergy.

  • Teaching: My teaching experience in area related to computer engineering and Science, artificial intelligent system, biomedical engineering. Keywords: Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, biomedical.

Recent News​

  • Latest update could be seen in IRI Lab [link]

  • [IOP Conference] H. Al Jassmi, F. Al Najjar, and A.-H. I. Mourad, “Large-Scale 3D Printing: The Way Forward,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 324, p. 012088, Mar. 2018

  • [Journal 2018] H. Kogami, Q. An, N. Yang, H. Yamakawa, Y. Tamura, A. Yamashita, H. Asama, S. Shimoda, H. Yamasaki, M. Itkonen, F. Alnajjar, N. Hattori, M. Kinomoto, K. Takahashi, T. Fujii, H. Otomune, and I. Miyai, “Effect of Physical Therapy on Muscle Synergy Structure during Standing-up Motion of Hemiplegic Patients,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: PP Issue: 99, pp. 1–1, 2018. [abstract]

  • [Journal 2018] A. Costa, M. Itkonen, H. Yamasaki, F. Alnajjar, and S. Shimoda, “A Novel Approach to the Segmentation of sEMG Data Based on the Activation and Deactivation of Muscle Synergies During Movement,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Volume: PP Issue: 99, pp. 1–1, 2018.

  • [ACCRAC2018] Chiropractic care alters TMS induced I-wave excitability and cortical silent period duration

  • [ACCRAC2018] The effects of chiropractic care on oculomotor control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A pilot study.

  • [ICECTA’2017]  Munkhjargal Gochoo,  Tan-Hsu Tan,  Shing-Hong Liu ,  Shih-Chia Huang,  Fady S. Alnajjar, DCNN-Based Elderly Activity Recognition Using Anonymous Binary Sensors.

  • [ICECTA’2017]  Mohammad Wedyan,  Fady Alnajjar,  Peer Mohamad Muhamed Ali,  Shingo Shimoda,  Adel Al-Jumaily, A Wearable Robotics Assistive Device: Design, Technical Solutions, and Implementation.

  • [SSI2017] Ningjia Yang, Qi An, Hiroki Kogami, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yusuke Tamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama, Shingo Shimoda, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Matti Itkonen, Fady Shibata-Alnajjar, et al., 片麻痺患者の起立動作のリハビリテーションにおける理学療法士の技能の解析. 

  • [SSI2017] Ningjia Yang, Qi An, Hiroki Kogami, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yusuke Tamura, Atsushi Yamashita, Hajime Asama, Shingo Shimoda, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Matti Itkonen, Fady Shibata-Alnajjar, et al., Clarification of Muscle Synergy Structure During Standing-up Motion of Healthy Elderly and Post-Stroke Patients.

  • [Invited Speaker, 2017] Avatar Based Interaction Therapy, Assistive-TechX 2017, Dubai, [Link]

  • [ICMA, 2017] Moza Alahbabi, Fatima Almazroei, Mariam Almarzoqi, Aysha Almeheri, Mariam Alkabi, A. Al Nuaimi, Massimiliano Cappuccio, Fady Alnajjar, Avatar Based Interaction Therapy: A Potential Therapeutic Approach for Children with Autism, IEEE international conference on mechatronics and automation, Takamatsu, Japan. (Link)

  • [EMBC, 2017] Á. Costa, M. Itkonen, H. Yamasaki, F. S. Alnajjar and S. Shimoda, "Importance of muscle selection for EMG signal analysis during upper limb rehabilitation of stroke patients," 2017 39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Jeju Island, South Korea, 2017, pp. 2510-2513.
    doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8037367 (Link)

  • [IEEE-RAS-EMBS, 2017] Ningjia Yang,Qi An,Hiroshi Yamakawa,Yusuke Tamura,Atsushi Yamashita,Matti Itkonen, Fady Alnajjar, Shingo Shimoda,Hajime Asama,Noriaki Hattori,Ichiro Miyai, Clarification of Muscle Synergy Structure During Standing-up Motion of Healthy Young, Elderly and Post-Stroke Patients, 2017 IEEE-RAS-EMBS International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Jul. 2017, Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icorr.2017.8009215, London, United Kingdom (Link)

  • [IEEE IRIS2016 - Book Chapter, Dec. 2016] Ghada M. Bani Musa; Adel Al-Jumaily; Fady Alnajjar; Shingo Shimoda, Analyze the human movements to help CNS to shape the synergy using CNMF and pattern recognition, IEEE 4th International Symposium on Robotics and Intelligent Sensors (IEEE IRIS2016).  (Link)

  • ​[Publication, Nov. 2016] Oyama, Shintaro, Shingo Shimoda, Fady Alnajjar, Katsuyuki Iwatsuki, Minoru Hoshiyama, Hirotaka Tanaka, and Hitoshi Hirata. “Biomechanical Reconstruction Using the Tacit Learning System: Intuitive Control of Prosthetic Hand Rotation.” Frontiers in Neurorobotics 10 (November 29, 2016). doi:10.3389/fnbot.2016.00019. (Link)

  • [ICP2016, July, 2016], Neurofeedback rehabilitation activating local neural pathways, Fady Alnajjar, Shingo Shimoda​. The 31st International Congress of Psychology , 24-29 July 2016, YOKOHAMA, Japan.  (Abstract) (Published)

  • [ICNR2016, Oct. 2016],  The Role of Inputs Combination to Enhance the Internal Model and Body Control Ability​, Fady Shibata Alnajjar, Fatimah Harib, Shaima Alameri, Asma Almarzoqi, Matti Itkonen, Hiroshi Yamasaki, Nazar Zaki and Shingo Shimoda.

  • [ICNR2016, Oct. 2016], Muscle Synergies Indices to Quantify the Human Skilled Behavior, Fady Alnajjar and Shingo Shimoda.

  • [Visiting Researcher, Jun. ~ Aug. 2016] Haptix Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univesity of Michigan, Michigan, US.

  • [Innovator show, 2016], Robot Avator, AbuDhabi, UAE (Link)

  • [Semi-Finalist, Feb. 2016], UAE AI & Robotics Award for Good, Skills Acquisition: a novel neurofeedback approach,  Dubai, UAE, (Link).

  • [Invited speaker, Sept.29,2015] Robotic and Automation seminar RTEX2015, Dubai, UAE (Link).

  • [Media research Highlight, Sept.30, Alnajzeera] Aljazeerah news (Link)

  • [Oral and poster talk, July 2015] Alnajjar Fady, Shimoda Shingo,  Muscle synergies as a neurofeedaback to assist motor function recovery, The 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society, July 28-31, 2015, kobe, Japan.

  • [Organizing workshop Aug. 2015] Pre-Conference Workshop, How to use Muscle Synergies Beyond Off-line Analysis (webpage). 

  • [Public Lecture April 27, 2015] Neural Synergy: The advance platform for motor function recovery, American University in RAK, UAE. (abstract)

  • [Winner of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research "Kakenhi", April 2015] Young researcher program, received amount of 26000$ to conduct research in sensory synergy entitle: "Neural-Synergy as biological signal processing and its application to neurorehaibiltiation".

  • [Patent, Feb.2015]: Alnajjar, F. 2015. Rehabilitation system. Japan Patent/Europ Patent (15153160.5).

  • [Book Chapter, 2015] Vincent Berenz, Fady Alnajjar, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe, Shingo Shimoda (2015) Tacit Learning for Emergence of Task-Related Behaviour through Signal Accumulation, Emergent Trends in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing Volume 316, 2015, pp 31-38 (Abstract)

  • [Attended annual discussion, March 2015] Conference on Systems Neuroscience and Rehabilitation (SNR2015).  A wide range of research fields, including systems neuroscience, psychology, neurology, and engineering, discussed possibilities for the future of NeuroRehabilitations. 

  • [Publications, Apr.2015] Fady S. Alnajjar, Matti Itkonen, Chikara Nagai and Shingo Shimoda (2015) Sensory Synergy: Modeling the Neural Dynamics of Environmental Feedback to the Central Nervous System, 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), Montpellier, France.

  • [Publications, Jan.2015] Fady Alnajjar, Matti Itkonen, Vincent Berenz, Maxime Tournier, Chikara Nagai, Shingo Shimoda (2015) Sensory Synergy as environmental input integration, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8:436. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00436 (Abstract)

  • [Book Chapter, 2014] Muscle Synergy Features in Behavior Adaptation and Recovery, Fady S. Alnajjar, Replace, Repair, Restore, Relieve – Bridging Clinical and Engineering Solutions in Neurorehabilitation Biosystems & Biorobotics Volume 7, 2014, pp 245-253

  • [Patents, Dec. 2014] European Patent Appication 14188244.9 (Training apparatus, method and program. (post-stroke rehabilitation).

  • [Invited speaker, Nov.7,2014]: Hot Topics in the BSI Research, title “Cortical brain responses for reducing impairments in post-stroke patients”, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo. 

  • [Research Highlight in social media, May.28, 2014]: Alkhaleej newspaper UAE (Link).

  • [Invited speaker, May.21,2014]: Large-Scale Brain Network: A neuro-computational model of higher order cognitive mechanisms. 4th Cog sci Seminar, United Arab Emirates University. Al Ain, UAE (Link) 

  • [Invited speaker, May.20,2014]: Neural Synergy: The future of motor function development and recovery. 2nd Cognitive science day, United Arab Emirates University. Al Ain, UAE (Link) 

  • [Research Highlight in social media, Feb.2014]: RIKEN website. (Striking the right balance with muscle control: Modeling reveals how the central nervous system systematically chooses optimal muscle responses to maintain balance). (Link)

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