Mien Van was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Advanced Robotics Centre, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore and the WMG, University of Warwick, UK, from 2015 to 2018 and a Senior Research Fellow with the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, from 2018 to 2019. He is currently a Lecturer at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen's University Belfast. He is a recipient of the IET Science, Measurement and Technology Premium Awards in 2017. His research interests include human--robot interaction, robot control, robot--vision systems, fault diagnosis and fault tolerance, machine learning, and sensing and perception.