Bibhya Sharma

Bibhya Sharma hails from Fiji and obtained his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of the South Pacific (USP). He started his career as a secondary school Mathematics teacher in 1994 and moved to tertiary teaching in 1997 as a tutor at USP. He has since taught at various capacities at USP and took up his current position as Associate Dean Learning and Teaching within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment in 2010 and moved up to the ranks of Associate Professor in Mathematics in 2012. He is a member of a number of professional mathematics societies and unions and has published more than 90 articles and book chapters in the fields of robotics, biologically inspired processes, mathematics education, and the TLPs of higher education. He is very passionate about research in motion planning and control of robots using the Lyapunov based Control Scheme and has made significant contributions to the research area. His current research is on concepts such as motion camouflage, landmarks, swarming, formation patters and tunneling which all are integrated to the problem of motion planning and control. He has also been active in looking into newer mechanical systems and model them for the biologically inspired concepts and activities. Bibhya also has noteworthy contributions in area of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and new tools and technologies to enhance higher education in the Pacific region. He champions adaptive works and innovations in the areas of eLearning and mLearning for higher education. More information regarding his work and achievements can be found at http://scims.usp.ac.fj/~bibhyasharma/.