Samuel is a research assistant at the Smart Engineering Systems Research Center (SESC) and a master’s student in the mechatronics engineering program at Nile University. He received his BSc degree in mechatronic engineering from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in 2017. He’s currently working as part of the bio-hybrid soft robotics lab on underwater soft robots and his current research interests are the modeling, control, and perception for robots, building biomimetic robots, and applying artificial intelligence for robot cognition.