Dr. Almas Shintemirov received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2009. In 2011 he became one of three founding faculty members of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics at Nazarbayev University (NU), where he has contributed to setting up undergraduate and graduate robotics and mechatronics academic programs as well as developing state-of-the-art teaching and research infrastructure and research capacity of the department.

He is currently an Associate Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics and from September 2019 also serves as an Acting Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NU. Dr Shintemirov’s  main research interest is in intelligent  human-machine interface designs for serial and parallel industrial, assistive and mobile robot control. He has been PI or co-investigator of numerous projects funded from the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan and Nazarbayev University. For his contribution to technology development, he received the “The Certificate of Merit of the Republic of Kazakhstan” award in 2017, and the Kazakhstan Scopus Award 2018 – Top Researcher in Engineering and Technologies from Elsevier. More information and video demonstrations of selected research, student course and graduate projects can be found at Dr. Shintemirov’s research group web-site https://www.alaris.kz/.