Hani M. BU-OMER received BSc. and MSc. degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Systems from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt, in 2011 and 2017. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from Okayama University, Japan, in 2021. His Ph.D. research focused on studying brain activities associated with a sense of agency using EEG. He is a Research Scientist at ATR, Kyoto, Japan. He has previously held research positions, including Specially Appointed Researcher at Osaka University, Japan. His work focuses on the physiological, endocrinological, and personality bases of pain expression; the effects of robotic-mediated communication on pain perception; and EEG-based pain prediction systems. His research interests include neural signal processing, EEG-based pain prediction, socioeconomic and physiological correlates of pain, and the application of AI in health systems. Dr. Bu-Omer is Cofounder of the Hadhramout Foundation for Invention and Advancement of Science (HFIAS), Yemen. He is a member of the Japanese Association for the Study of Pain (JASP), IEEE, IEEE EMBS, and other professional societies. He has received numerous honors, including the CiNet Research Award in 2022 and scholarships from the Japanese government (MEXT) and Yemen’s Ministry of Higher Education.