Education

Doctor of Philosophy

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Lyle School of Engineering, Southern Methodist University (SMU), where I am a research assistant at the Biological, Sensing, Actuation, and Transport (BAST) Laboratory under the supervision of Professor Minjun Kim.

Ph.D. courses:

• Multivariable Linear Control Theory (A)

• Intermediate Fluid Dynamics (B+)

• Intro to Solid Mechanics (A)

• Python for Computer Science (A)

• Intermediate Dynamics (A)

• Nano-bio Manufacturing (A)

Conferences

1. Duygu, Y. C., Azeez, M. I., Lee, S., Gurusinghe, L., Khedewy, A., Wang, Z., Cheang, U. K., & Kim, M. J. Model predictive control for closed-loop surface navigation of magnetic microswimmers. 2025 22nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), College Station, TX, USA, 2025, pp. 556-561, doi: 10.1109/UR65550.2025.11078041 

Master of Science

I pursued and completed an MSc. degree from the same department in December 2023, obtaining a GPA of 3.94/4. My master's thesis focused on the mathematical, MSC ADAMS, and Simscape modeling of rigid and flexible link manipulators, where I directed my efforts towards optimizing controller gains for the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller and sliding mode controller (SMC) through the application of metaheuristic optimization algorithms.

M.Sc. courses:

• Continuum Mechanics,

• Variational Mechanics, 

• Advanced Theory of Vibration,

• Dynamics of Robotics,

• Introduction to Engineering Materials,

• Measurement Technology, 

• Engineering Computational Methods,

• Advanced Engineering Mathematics.

Bachelor

I earned my BSc. with an excellent degree with first-class honors from Zagazig University, Egypt, in 2020.