Education
Academic background and training.
Academic Background
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Binghamton University
- Ph.D. researcher in the AIR Lab (Autonomous Intelligence & Robotics Lab), advised by Prof. Shiqi Zhang.
- Research focus: reinforcement learning for humanoid robot locomotion, including policy training and analysis of robustness and adversarial failure modes.
- Research focus: security and safety of robot task planning, including attacks and defense mechanisms against harmful plan generation.
- Research focus: LLM-based pipelines for structured decision-making and sequential task execution with state tracking.
M.S. in Computer Engineering · University of Bridgeport
- Fulbright Foreign Student Program Scholar (2018–2020).
- Awarded Academic Achievement in Computer Engineering.
- Thesis: "Speech Signal Enhancement Based on Sequence to Sequence Model with a Novel Attention Mechanism," supervised by Prof. Ausif Mahmood — designed and implemented a deep learning model for speech signal enhancement using Python and Keras.
Pre-Academic English Language Course · Drexel University
- Six-week intensive pre-academic English language course.
B.S. in Computer Engineering · Al-Nahrain University
- First-ranked student, College of Engineering Award.