Harold Soh

Harold Soh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Collaborative Learning and Adaptive Robots (CLeAR) lab. He completed his Ph.D. at Imperial College London, focusing on online learning for assistive robots. Harold’s research interests are in artificial intelligence — particularly generative modeling and decision-making — for trustworthy collaborative robots. His contributions have been recognized with a R:SS Early Career Spotlight in 2023, best paper awards at IROS’21 and T-AFFC’21, and several nominations (R:SS’18, HRI’18, RecSys’18, IROS’12). Harold has undertaken significant roles in the HRI community, most recently as co-Program Chair of ACM/IEEE HRI’24. He currently serves as Senior Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction, and Associate Editor at the International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR). He is a Principal Investigator at the Smart Systems Institute and a co-founder of TacnIQ, a startup developing touch-enabled intelligence.

Harold lives in Singapore with his wife and two lovely children. In his precious free time, he enjoys reading science fiction with a glass of wine.