Rowel Atienza

Rowel Atienza is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute of the University of the Philippines. He has been fascinated by intelligent robots since he was young. In his MEng at the National University of Singapore, he formulated a control algorithm to enable a four-legged robot walk. In his PhD at the Australian National University, he built the first active gaze tracking system for natural human-robot interaction. Rowel likes teaching and research on computer vision and deep learning. He is a recipient of both government and private research funds.