Nabil Belbachir

Research Director DARWIN

NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre

Nabil Belbachir has almost three decades of experience with computer vision, AI and robotics, as engineer, scientist, visionary leader and strategist, contributing with sustainable innovative concepts, products and solutions. 

Nabil Belbachir is a research director at NORCE, director at eu-robotics Aisbl and strategy advisor for ADRA Aisbl and the European Commission, for coordinating European Strategic Research, Innovation and Deployment Agenda 2030 and contributing to HEU work programme 2025-2027 in AI, Data and Robotics.

He has a PhD (2005) in computer science from TU Vienna (Austria). He edited the single-source Springer book “Smart Cameras (2009)”, translated into Chinese by China Machine Press (2014). He has over 120 scientific publications, 3 patents and he is recently coordinating COGNIMAN, the Horizon Europe Innovation project on AI-powered robotics for Smart Manufacturing.