News & Events

[November 2023]: Our racing team secured 4th place out of 18 in the first phase of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) SIM Races.
[November 2023]: We released the source code of our article "GP-guided MPPI for Efficient Navigation in Complex Unknown Cluttered Environments".

[October 2023]: I am reviewing two papers for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
[October 2023]: We are registered in the IAC SIM Races as an Official IAC university representing Indiana University.
[September 2023]: I am serving as a Technical Co-lead for our autonomous racing team, we are planning to compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge and the Abu-Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL).

[August 2023]: I am serving as a Teaching Assistant for the Autonomous Robotics Course.
[July 2023]: I am reviewing one paper for the Autonomous Robots journal.
[July 2023]: I presented our paper "Autonomous Navigation, mapping, and Exploration using Gaussian Processes" at the Robotics: Science and System (RSS23), Daegu- South Korea.

[June 2023][One IROS Paper]: One paper has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2023). The paper - entitled "GP-guided MPPI for Efficient Navigation in Complex Unknown Cluttered Environments"- introduces an online learning-based control strategy (named GP-MPPI) that integrates the MPPI algorithm with a local perception model based on Sparse Gaussian Process (SGP).

[April 2023][One RSS Paper]: One paper has been accepted for presentation at the Robotics: Science and System (RSS23) Daegu- South Korea. The paper - entitled "Autonomous Navigation, mapping, and Exploration using Gaussian Processes"- introduces a new framework to couple the formulation of Navigation, Mapping, and Exploration using Gaussian Processes.

[March 2023]: One paper was submitted to the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2023).
[January 2023][Two ICRA Paper]: Two papers have been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA23), London-UK: "Light-weight Pointcloud Representation with Sparse Gaussian Process" and "GP-Frontier for Local Mapless Navigation"

[January 2023]: One paper was submitted to the Robotics: Science and System (RSS23) conference.
[September 2022]: Two papers were submitted to the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA23).
[February 2022]: One paper was submitted to the Robotics: Science and System (RSS22) conference.
[August 2021]: I joined the Vehicle Autonomy and Intelligence Lab (VAIL) as a PhD Student with a Research Assistant (RA) position.
[January 2019]: I start working as a Robotics Software Engineer in the Cognitive Robotics Department in TUDelft.
[September 2018]: Successfully defended my master's thesis; Event-based bio-inspired depth estimation algorithm using iCub.

[March 2018]: I started my internship at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in the Event Driven Perception Group.
[March 2018]: I started the second year of EMARO+ at the University of Genoa, Italy.
[July 2017]: I attended the EMARO-Days workshop, in Genoa, Italy.
[July 2017]: (Rank 1/7) Successfully passed the first year of EMARO+.
[June 2017]: Successfully defended my first-year project, "Turtlebot Localization Using Visual Markers", in collaboration with Kevin Serrano.

[September 2016]: I started EMARO+ master at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France.
[August 2016]: I participate in the IDC Robocon 2016 contest as the Egyptian team supervisor, in Bangkok, Thailand.
[May 2016]: I have been awarded the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to join EMARO+.
[March 2016]: I finished the mandatory military service in the Egyptian Army.
[March 2015]: I started the mandatory military service in the Egyptian Army.
[October 2014]: I started working as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Egypt.
[July 2014]: (Rank 2/380) I graduated in the Control dept, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Egypt.
[July 2014]: I participate in the IDC Robocon 2014 contest, in Rabat, Morocco.
[April 2014]: I attended the Made In Egypt "MIE" training workshop, in Cairo, Egypt.
[March 2014]: I attended the 1st Egypt-Japan workshop for Robotics at E-JUST, in Alexandria, Egypt.