Daniel received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1993. He later earned his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 2002, and his Ph.D in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2006. Daniel’s research interests are in Robotics and Computer Vision. Specifically, he has interests in visual perception, autonomous robot navigation and mapping, environment representation and recognition, and segmentation methods in Computer Vision. He has several publications in these areas in refereed journals and conference proceedings Daniel is a senior member in IEEE and is the advisor of the ASME chapter at AUB. Daniel also has working experience in industry in mechanical and industrial design as well as in construction management.