Salah Sukkarieh undertakes research and develops field robotic systems. He is the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at the University of Sydney, and Director of Research and Innovation at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, and has lead a number of robotics and intelligent systems R&D projects in logistics, commercial aviation, aerospace, education, environment monitoring, agriculture and mining. In 2014 he was awarded the NSW Science and Engineering Award for Excellence in Engineering and Information and Communications Technologies.

Salah is a Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and is on the editorial board for the ‘Journal of Field Robotics’, ‘Journal of Autonomous Robots’ and ‘Transactions of Aerospace Systems’.