John-John Cabibihan

John-John Cabibihan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering, with specialization in Biorobotics, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007. Concurrent with his Ph.D. studies, he was accepted into the cotutelle Ph.D. program at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France, in 2004-2005, where he conducted research on soft materials at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie. In 2021, he completed the Venture Creation and Finance Programme at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Cabibihan has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications, is an inventor in 20 patent families, and has co-edited more than 15 books. He was the co-founding Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics and co-established the flagship International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). His work and projects on social robotics, human-robot interaction, humanitarian and healthcare robotics, and additive manufacturing have been featured in Nature Materials, MIT Technology Review, the BBC, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Discovery News, among others.