He does research in the area of computer vision and machine learning including visual object recognition, object tracking and pose estimation, motion estimation, 3D reconstruction, and human-robot interaction (HRI) such as humanoid social robots for interaction and intervention with children with special needs (e.g. autism) and elderly with depression and dementia. He has received over $3M of research funding from state and federal agencies including the National Science Foundation. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and has published about 100 conference and journal papers. Dr. Mahoor received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, Florida in 2007.