He is a Professor at the School of Information Science & Technology, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science & Technology (VISTEC), located in Rayong, Thailand. In addition to his primary role, he holds an ancillary academic position as a Professor of Biorobotics at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark. Furthermore, he serves as the head of the Research Center for Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Automation at VISTEC.
As author or co-author, he has published over 120 publications in journals (e.g., Nature Physics, Nature Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters) and conferences (e.g., IROS, ICRA) and his articles have been cited in total more than 3100 citations. His H-index is 29 (from google scholar).
He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) on more than 10 funded projects, including those funded by EU Horizon 2020, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), and Doctoral Networks - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Currently, he serves as an associate editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Frontiers in Neuroscience (Neurorobotics), and Adaptive Behavior (SAGE), a guest associate editor of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and an associate editor for IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (2020,2021,2022). He also serves as the editorial board of the Scientific Reports and Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
The central goal of his research is to understand “how brain-like mechanisms and biomechanics can be realized in robots so they can become more intelligent like living creatures?”. According to this, his team has developed bio-inspired behaving robots with general bio-inspired machine learning methods and could show that these robots can acquire complex behaviors with learning and adaptation. In addition to this, his team also focuses on transferring biomechanical and neural developments of robots to other real-world applications, like inspection, healthcare, industry, service.
The research results of his groups have been featured in news outlets, such as IEEE Spectrum (Video Friday), Advanced Science News, TechXplore, the cover page of Nature Machine Intelligence (Vol. 4, No. 2, February 2022), the cover page of Advanced Intelligent Systems (Vol. 4, No. 1, January 2022), the cover page of Advanced theory and Simulations (Vol. 6, No. 8, August 202 3).