Prof. Vadakkepat, an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore is the founder secretary of the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association [www.fira.net] and currently its General Secretary. He is one of the resource persons in the Igniting Minds movement by Vijyana Bharathi India which is a programme enabling students to shed conventions and think out of the box. He was the founder director to an entrepreneurial start-up "Robhatah Robotic Solutions" at Singapore and Bangalore.Dr. Vadakkepat is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Springer Journal of Frugal Innovation (JFI) which is as an open access Journal aiming at creating an inclusive platform for ideas and innovations. He has initiated an International Conference on Frugal Innovation [www.ifrugal.org] which is planned in Singapore in 2014. He runs the 'Ideas for Life' Social Entrepreneurship Challenge seeking design innovations which are simple and novel, and directs the Frugal Innovation effort of NUS.In 2014, Dr. Vadakkepat has co-authored the book titled "Computational Intelligence in Multi-Feature Visual Pattern Recognition - Hand Posture and Face Recognition using Biologically Inspired" which is published by Springer.Dr. Vadakkepat is the Editor-In-Chief for the Springer Handbook of the Humanoid Robotics. He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. His Humanoid robots and robot soccer teams have consistently won several international prizes: First prize and overall championship in Humanoid robot soccer at the FIRA Robot World Cup (Germany 2006, Singapore 2005 and Austria 2003), First Prize (open category) in Singapore Robotic Games (2004) and Second prize in FIRA 2004.Dr. Vadakkepat's initiative among others includes an international conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems which is being held successfully since 2001. He was the general chair to the FIRA Robot World Cup & Congress Singapore 2005. He was the General Program Chair to FIRA Robot World Congress Incheon 2009 and the General Chair to FIRA Robot World Cup & Congress Bangalore 2010 [www.fira.in].He is a Senior Member of IEEE (USA, since 2005). He was the Secretary to the IEEE Singapore Section in 2005. He has served as Technical Activity Coordinator to the IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) during 2001-2002. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE), India. He is a member of the National Committee on Robotics, Confederation of Indian Industry since 2009.He is actively involved in various technical forums including conferences, symposia and robotic competitions. He has been featured in prominent newspapers & TV shows in India, Singapore, USA, Korea, Japan, Spain, Kuwait, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, France & China. His name is included in the Marquis Who is Who in the World since 2006.Dr. Vadakkepat received his M.Tech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 1989 and 1996 respectively. While pursuing Post-Doctoral studies at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST, 96-98), he was awarded the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) fellowship. Since 1999, he is with the National Univ. of Singapore.His research interest includes Frugal Innovation, Humanoid Robotics, Distributed Robotic Systems, Biomorphs, Neuro-Fuzzy Controllers and Intelligent Control Techniques and has publications in several leading international journals.