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Mazen Ghandour is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the critical intersection of human-robot interaction (HRI), mobile robotics, and autonomous navigation in indoor environments. His research addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern robotics: enabling mobile robots to safely coexist and collaborate with humans in shared workspaces such as laboratories and future smart work environments. Ghandour's most significant contributions lie in the development of innovative collision avoidance systems that actively engage both humans and robots in generating collision-free paths — a hybrid approach that distinguishes his work from purely autonomous solutions. His most-cited paper (2016, 10 citations) introduced an interactive collision avoidance framework that prioritizes human safety, a concern of growing importance as service and industrial robots become increasingly prevalent. Complementing this, his work on face feature recognition using Microsoft Kinect sensors and Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) demonstrates his command of sensor fusion and machine learning techniques applied to HRI. His 2015 research on Kalman filter-based navigation further highlights his contributions to robust robot localization. With a cumulative citation count approaching 35 across his key publications, Ghandour has established a focused and meaningful body of work informing the next generation of human-safe robotic systems.