Primary Job Title Vice President and Chief Technical Advisor Primary Organization Intrepid Robotics
Gender Male
Dr. Ghorbel is a professor of robotics at Rice University in Houston. He is founder and chairman of IT Robotics, Inc., an early stage robotics company that has secured funding through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund and produces piggable robots that can inspect small diameter piping in refineries. Dr. Ghorbel is responsible for the
introduction of new technologies into the existing robotic platform and liaison with manufacturing and public/private partnerships. Dr. Ghorbel received a B.S. degree with honors from Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign all in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Ghorbel is a Member of the ASME, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi, IFAC, SIAM, IASTED, ASEE, and past President of the Tunisian Scientific Society (TSS). He is a Founding Member, Member of the Board of Directors, and Vice-President of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF). He was the recipient of the medal of "Order of National Merit in the field of education and sciences" by order of the president of Tunisia. He is the past Vice-Chair then Chair of the ASME Biomechanical Systems Panel, and the past Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society's Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation and Robotic Control. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board, and a past Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Dr. Ghorbel served in conference organization and program committees at different organizational levels including Conference Chair, Conference Co-General Chair, Publication Chair, Publicity Chair, Finance Chair, and Member of several national and international conference Program Committees.
