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Honors and Awards

 

 

 

 

 

     Registered Patents

  • [Patent, Feb.2014]: Alnajjar, F. 2015. Rehabilitation system. Japan Patent/Europ Patent (15153160.5).

  • [Patent, Feb. 2014]: Alnajjar, F. 2014. Training apparatus, Training method, and program. Japan Patent/Europ Patent (14188244.9).

 

    Invited Talks

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

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

  • [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. 

  • [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) 

  • [Invited speaker, Feb. 2014]: The Future of Robot in Neuro-rehabilitation, Invited by the Engineering Department, Sharjah University, United Arab Emirates (link)

  • [Invited speaker, Nov. 2014]: The Future of Human Health and Rehabilitation. Invited by the IEEE UAE Robotics and Automation Society Chapter. (Link) 

  • [Invited speaker, May.2011]: "The brain mechanisms and the Idea of Artificial Neural Network and its applications", by suntechno (http://www.sanyu-group.com/suntec/).

  • [Invited speaker]: "Japan Advanced Robotics Research Workshop" in the Higher College of Technology HCT, Dubai College, Dubai, UAE (18th~19th of Jan. 2011). 

  • [Invited to a Group Discussion as a Young Scholar] by the Higher Technical Colleges (HTC) in the "Festival of Thinker", AbuDhabi, UAE (Nov. 1 ~ Nov. 4, 2009)(http://fot.hct.ac.ae/fot2009/). 

  • [Invited speaker]: by the Higher Technical Colleges (HTC) in the Education without Border (EWB09), Dubai, UAE (Mar. 29th ~ Apr. 1, 2009). (http://ewb.hct.ac.ae/news/education-without-borders-2009-acclaimed-a-great-success/) 

 

   Newspaper Clips 

  • [Research Highlight in local media, Feb.1, 2017], emirates247, UAE, (Link)

  • [Research Highlight in local media, March.3, 2017], Gulfnews, UAE (link)

  • [Research Highlight in local media, Feb.25, 2017], ArabianBusiness, UAE, (link)

  • [Research Highlight in local media, April.8, 2017]: TheNationa newspaper, UAE (link) 

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

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

  • [Research Highlight in social media, Feb.2014]: RIKEN website. (Link)

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   Grant winner

  • PI for Autism research with Alain Hospital (10,000USD).

  • Co-researcher for Autism research, 200,000USD (Autism research)

  • [Winner of the Grants for Start-up researcher, 2017~2019], 100,000USD (Building rehabilitation robot arm)

  • [Winner of the Grants for building Robot Avatar from Air-force UAE, 2016~2017], 15000USD.

  • [Winner of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research "Kakenhi"] 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".

  • [Winner of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JSPS] Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Foreign Researchers (FY 2011-2013). (http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/data/gaitoku23-1e.pdf)

  • [Winner of a travel grant] given to upper 15% of best paper submission to the 16th International Conference onNeura Information Processing(ICONIP 2009), Bangkok, Thailand. (http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/APNNANEW/awards)

  • [Winner of Student Travel Grant] from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2008 (WCCI 2008)

  • [Winner of Japanese Government Scholarship] (2004~2010)

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   Other Activities 

  • [Program Committee Member, 2015] 7th World Congress on nature and biologically inspired computing, South Africa, Dec. 01-03 2015. 

  • [Member in European project, 2013 ~] entitled "smart wearable robot with bio-inspired sensory-motor skills".

  • [Program Committee Member, 2012] in Hybrid Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Cognitive Robotics, IJCNN, 2012~ IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. 

  • [The best student master research topic] (2006) University of Fukui  - Japan

  • [The best Student Paper Award] on the 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS) and the 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS) held at Tokyo Institute of Technology, in Tokyo, Japan.

    Social Activities 

  • An adviser for Fukui Association for Cultural Exchange , Fukui city, Japan (Oct. 2008~..).

 

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Alkhaleej newspaper
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HCT Dubai workshop
HCT workshop
Invited for a lecture at Sanyu
The best student master research top
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Eng
best Student Paper Award SCIS&ISIS20
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