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[June 2020] Paper titled "Learning Socially Compliant Navigation From Human Trajectories in Crowded Spaces " accepted to IROS 2020.

[December 2019] He joined National Oillwell Varco as a Robotics Research Engineer.

[October 2019] He successfully defended his dissertation on 21st October, 2019.

[September 2019] Muhammad Fahad's defense is scheduled for 21st October, 2019, at Burchard 213 between 11:00 AM and 12:30 PM.

[August 2019] Accepted into the Research Associate's Program run by National Academy of Sciences.

[June 2019] Gave a talk on "Real-world Application of Mobile Robots" to Xidian University visiting students.

[September 2018] Presented his paper titled "Learning How Pedestrians Navigate: A Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach" at IROS 2018.

[July 2018] First author paper received the "TJ Tarn Best Application Paper Award" for the paper titled "Ocean Plume Tracking with Unmanned Surface Vessels: Algorithms and Experiments" at the 13th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA). The paper is authored by M. Fahad, Y. Guo, K. Krasnosky, L. Fitzpatrick, F. A. Sanabria and B. Bingham.

[May 2018] Journal paper titled "Simulating Fine-scale Marine Pollution Plumes for Autonomous Robotic Environmental Monitoring ", has been accepted to Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Robotic Control Systems.

[April 2018] Paper titled "Ocean Plume Tracking with Unmanned Surface Vessels: Algorithms and Experiments " has been accepted WCICA 2018.

[September 2017] Won Student Poster Competition in Oceans Conference held in Anchorage, Alaska on Sept. 18-21, 2017. Muhammad presented his poster entitled "Evaluation of Ocean Plume Characteristics using Unmanned Surface Vessels" at the conference.

[September 2017] Published his paper entitled "Robotic Experiments to Evaluate Ocean Plume Characteristics and Structure" in Proceedings of IEEE IROS 2017.