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Engineering Consultant

Therasonic - Spin-off company from CEA Neurospin

Contributing to medical robotics development and assisted drug delivery systems.

• Medical Robotics Development
• Assisted Drug Delivery

Doctoral Candidate

Institute Polytechnique de Paris - ENSTA

Researching socio-affective touch in robotics, focusing on haptics, tactility, signal processing, and real-time estimation.

• Socio-Affective Touch in Robotics
• Haptics
• Tactility
• Signal Processing
• Real time Estimation

Research Engineer

ICube Laboratory

Led a team focused on optimization-based Coverage Path Planning and designed/implemented a control pipeline for an industrial manipulator in medical procedures.

• Team Lead: Jonathan VAPPOU
• Optimization-based Coverage Path Planning
• Control pipeline design for industrial manipulator

Master's End-of-Studies Intern

ICube Laboratory

Completed thesis on robotic assistance for Blood-Brain-Barrier opening using focused ultrasound.

• Thesis: Robotic Assistance for Blood-Brain-Barrier Opening Using Focused Ultrasound
• Supervisors: Jonathan VAPPOU, Florent NAGEOTTE

Project Supervisor

National Center for the Distinguished

Supervised academic projects for distinguished students.

Robotics Club VP

Syrian Computer Society

Organized international and regional robotics competitions and provided training in embedded systems, C/C++ programming for robotics, and Matlab for robotics.

• International and regional robotics competitions
• Robotics training
• Teaching courses (Embedded systems, C/C++ Programming, Matlab)

Scientific Committee Member for Physics

Syrian Scientific Olympiad (SSO)

M2 Masters in Engineering

University of Strasbourg

Medical Robotics

• Medical Robotics (120 ECTS)

Engineer Diploma

Tishreen University

Mechatronics

• 5 yrs diploma. 168 credit hours in 61 graded courses.

Baccalauréat

National Center for the Distinguished

Science

Excellence Merit Fellowship of the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute (HealthTech)

University of Strasbourg

Awarded for excellence in the Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute (HealthTech) program.

First place at Annual Robotics Competition, Senior SUMO cat.

Syrian Computer Society

Achieved first place in the Senior SUMO category at the annual robotics competition.

Best paper award at ICASSDA 2018

ICASSDA

Received the best paper award at the International Conference on Advanced Science and Sustainable Development Applications.

Second place at ULFG2 (regional robotics contest)

ULFG2

Secured second place in the ULFG2 regional robotics contest.

Participant in the 46th International Physics Olympiad

International Physics Olympiad

Represented Syria in the prestigious International Physics Olympiad.

National third rank, National Physics Olympiad

National Physics Olympiad

Achieved the third national rank in the National Physics Olympiad.

"Oh! It's Fun Chatting with You!" A Humor-aware Social Robot Chat Framework

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Published in collaboration with Zhang, H., García Cárdenas, J.J., Hei, X., Tapus, A. (2024). This work introduces a framework for social robots that can engage in humor-aware conversations.

Designing a Haptic Interface for Enhanced Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interaction: Integrating Heart and Lung Emotional Feedback

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Published with Liu, Y., Tapus, A. (2024). This paper focuses on creating a haptic interface for humanoid robots to convey emotional feedback through heart and lung simulations, enhancing non-verbal interaction.

Diaphragmatic Breathing Guidance Using a Humanoid Robot With a Soft Robotic Haptic Interface for Anxiety Reduction

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)

Authored with Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Tapus, A. (2024). This research explores using a humanoid robot with a soft haptic interface to guide diaphragmatic breathing for anxiety reduction.

Full Coverage and Optimal Planner for Blood-Brain Barrier Permeabilization using Focused Ultrasound Cavitation

Journal Article (under review)

Research conducted with Vappou, J - Nageotte. F - Larrat, B., focusing on optimizing planning for focused ultrasound applications.

Focused Ultrasound Sonication With Mechanical and Electronic Steering Along a Computed Trajectory

Patent (under review)

Patent application with Vappou, J - Nageotte. F - Larrat, B., describing a method for steering focused ultrasound.

COVID-19 lung CT image segmentation using deep learning methods: U-Net versus SegNet

BMC Med Imaging

Investigated and compared U-Net and SegNet deep learning techniques for semantic segmentation of COVID-19 infected tissue in CT lung images.

Two Proposed Indoor Multi-Cameras Positioning Systems Compared to Classical Geometry System

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Science and Sustainable Development Applications (ICASSDA)

Presented research on indoor positioning systems using multi-cameras, comparing them to classical geometry approaches.

Tactile Array for Humanoid Hand to enable socio-affective touch

Design, manufacturing, and validation of a tactile array embedded in a silicon-based substrate for humanoid hands, part of my thesis research.

• Thesis Project
• Tactile sensor design
• Humanoid robotics

Robotic Assistance for Blood-Brain Barrier Opening using Focused Ultrasound

Designed and optimized robot path planning using ROS2 on Universal Robots UR5 for improving accuracy and precision in this promising breakthrough in brain medicine.

• ROS2
• Universal Robots UR5
• Path planning
• Medical robotics

ROS2 Driver for NDI medical-grade visual localization system using ros2-control

Developed drivers for `ros2_control` to facilitate communication with NDI localization systems, crucial for performance-critical applications.

• ROS2
• NDI localization systems
• Performance-critical applications
• GitHub

Design and Implementation of a SWARM motion planning algorithm based on fluid dynamics

Developed a novel motion planning algorithm for a swarm of non-holonomic robots based on the numerical solution of Navier-Stokes’s equations. Also created a swarm platform of 15 mobile robots.

• SWARM robotics
• Motion planning
• Fluid dynamics
• Navier-Stokes equations
• GitHub

COVID-19 Lung CT Image Segmentation using Deep Learning

Investigated and compared SegNet and U-NET deep learning techniques for semantic segmentation of COVID-19 infected tissue regions in CT lung images.

• Deep Learning
• Image Segmentation
• COVID-19
• U-NET
• SegNet
• GitHub