John-John Cabibihan

John-John Cabibihan is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University. He was previously an Assistant Protessor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2013. He received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering, with specialization in Biorobotics, from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007. During his Ph.D. studies, he was awarded a fellowship under a cotutelle Ph.D. program at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France, in 2004-2005, where he worked on soft materials at the Laboratoire de Mécanique et Technologie. In 2021, he completed the Venture Creation and Finance Programme at Said Business School, University of
Oxford, UK.
Dr. Cabibihan has authored or co-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 played a leading role in establishing the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). His research is at the interface of social robotics, human-robot interaction, and human-centered technologies, with applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, and humanitarian contexts. His work fuses engineering, design, and real-world deployment. His research has been featured in Nature Materials, MIT Technology Review, the BBC, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Discovery News, among others.