Dr. Omar Mubin completed his PhD qualification in Human-Robot Interaction from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in 2011. Prior to being employed at UWS, he was a post-doctoral researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He was also a visiting researcher at Philips Research Eindhoven in 2007 during his 2-year tenure as a research trainee at the Eindhoven University of Technology, which resulted in him being awarded a PDEng degree in 2007. His research interests comprise Human-Computer Interaction, exploring the role of robots in education, Empirical research in Human-Computer Interaction and user-centered design. He has authored/co-authored about 35 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction.