I am a Master student at the Mechatronics and Robotics department of Bauaman Moscow State Technical University started in September 2018 (Expected graduation date August 2020). And also a junior researcher at the Federal Research Center “Computer Science and Control” of Russian Academy of Sciences. With research interests covering robot learning, Probabilistic programming, GPU optimization and computational neuroscience.
Nowadays, I am working as a Google Summer of Code student with TensorFlow organization, the project is to about Deep Gaussian processes in TensorFlow probability.
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EDUCATION
Bauman Moscow State Technical University
MSc in Mechatronics and Robotics
Current | 2018-2020 | Moscow,Russia
Cum. GPA: 5.0/5.0
Tishreen University
BSc in Mechatronics Engineering
Grad | 2012-2017 | Latakia,Syria
Cum. GPA: 86.15 / 100
Natioanl Center for the Distinguished
Best High school in Syria
Grad. | 2009-2012 | Syria
Cum. GPA: 94 / 100 , ranked 2nd
RESEARCH
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL CENTER
OF The RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | JUNIOUR RESEARCHER
August 2018 – Present | Moscow,Russia
- Working with prof. Alexandr Panov on data-efficient RL for robotics\
ROBOTICS LAB, BAUMAN MSTU | MASTER STUDENT
November 2018 – Present | Moscow,Russia
- Working with prof. Arkady Yuschenko on using RL to achieve high accuracy industrial assembly tasks.
EXPERIENCE
TENSORFLOW PROBABILITY | GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE STUDENT
May 2019 - present
- Project: Deep Gaussian process in TensorFlow - link
- TensorFlow acceptance rate for GSoC 2019: 22/1500
SBERBANK ROBOTICS LAB
February 2019 - May 2019
- Project: High accuracy mobile robot localization using LIDAR - link
- Monte Carlo localization (using particle filter in localozation)
NCD ROBOTIC CLUB | WRO ROBOTIC TRAINER
February 2016-June 2017 | Latakia,Syria
- Official robotic trainer after attending a TOT for WRO robotics competition
- Coached a team of school students and led them to won many competitions
FATHERBOARD | OWNER AND CREATOR
January 2017- November 2017 | Online
- Created a free Arduino course in Arabic that has more than 2500 viewers
ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
SUMMER SCHOOLS
- Full scholarship to attend Machine learning summer school in London - UCL & Imperial college 2019
- Full scholarship to attend the ETHz Robotics summer school - ETH Zurich 2019
- Summer School on Collaborative robotics - Innopolis University 2018
- Conversational Intelligence Summer School - MIPT 2018
COACH IN WRO COMPETITIONS
2016 | Baymax NCD team, Senior category
- Syrian champion and bronze medalist in world finals in India - WRO 2016
3 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN COMPETETIVE PROGRAMMING
2013-2015 | NCD#1 team:
- Arab regional contest ACM ACPC in Egypt 2015 -13 th place
- Syrian national contest ACM SCPC (Champion in 2015)
- Tishreen university ACM TCPC (Champion in 2013 and 2015)
SKILLS
PROGRAMMING AND TOOLS
C • C++ • Python • TensorFlow
Keras • Qt • ROS • LATEX
Matlab • OpenCV • Git
HARDWARE
Arduino • Raspberry PI • AVR chips
CAD/CAM
CATIA V5 • Solidworks • AutoCAD