Professor Shiller is the Chair of the Israeli Robotics Association, Head of the Master program in Mechanical Engineering of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at Ariel University, and Director of the Paslin Laboratory for Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles.   He earned the B.Sc. engineering degree from Tel Aviv University, and the M.Sc. and Sc.D. degrees from MIT, all in Mechanical Engineering.  Professor Shiller’s research has focused on model based optimal motion planning and stability control of off-road and intelligent road vehicles.  He is also leading the innovation study program that guides students from the conception of the idea to a working prototype with a focus on consumer and assistive robotics.  Prof. Shiller has organized and chaired the Israeli Conference on Robotics (ICR), the leading robotics event in Israel, since 2008.