Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania aminea (at) seas.upenn.edu
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
[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.