Ahmad Amine

About Me

I am a third year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Professor Rahul Mangharam. Prior to my PhD, I had obtained my MS in Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania, and my BE in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

Research Interests

• Control Systems: Model Predictive Control, Adaptive Control, Control of Switched (Hybrid) Systems, Sampling-based Control (MPPI)
• System Identification: Parameter Identification, Bayesian Modelling, Exploration-Exploitation Trade-off
• Machine Learning: Online Learning, Safe RL, Gaussian Processes, Bayesian Optimization

News

• [Nov. 2025] Our paper about Safe Information-Theoretic Learning Model Predictive Control for Iterative Tasks (SIT-LMPC) is publsihed in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Journal (IEEE RA-L).
• [Apr. 2025] Our paper about Zero-Shot Context Identification through Clustering and Foundation Modeling for Friction Estimation is accepted to ICRA 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics.
• [Apr. 2024] Our paper about Realtime Visual-based Pose Regression and Localization with Invertible Neural Networks (PoseINN) is accepted to RoboNerF WS 2024.
• [Jun. 2023] Our paper about HRI using Virtual Assistants is accepted to ROMAN 2023.
• [Mar. 2023] Our paper about Ensemble Gaussian Process MPC is accepted to IFAC 2023.

Publications

Services

Conference Reviewer

• IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025, 2026)
• IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023, 2024)
• IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS 2025)
• IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2023)
• IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2023, 2024, 2025)

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