Naveed Abbasi’s areas of research interest are Artificial Intelligence and control techniques for autonomous ground and flying vehicles. His research work with neural network techniques for vibration characterization using lasers is published in Elsevier’s Journal of Mechatronics and IEEE Xplore. He has been a recipient of many international travel grants for invited presentations, including from the European Geoscience Union (EGU), the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD).