Daniel Asmar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in systems design engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2006. He is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. He has over one hundred publications in these areas in refereed journals and conference proceedings. His research is in robotics and computer vision, visual perception, autonomous robot navigation and mapping, environment representation and recognition, augmentation techniques in archeology, and segmentation methods in computer vision. Since 2010, he has had increasing interest in digital cultural heritage, leveraging his knowledge in computer science to help address problems in this field. Dr. Asmar was the Founder of the joint IEEE Lebanese Chapter in Robotics and Automation, Instrumentations and Measurements, and Control Systems. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Council on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Virtual and Augmented Reality. He was an ASME member.