About Me

I am currently a Ph.D. student at GIPSA-LAB, University of Grenoble Alpes.
My area of research includes Kalman Filtering, Sensor Fusion, Navigation, Estimation, and Cyber-Physical Security.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Automatic Control, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, Oct 2022 - Sept 2025.
  • M.Sc. Mobile, Autonomous and Robotic Systems, Grenoble-INP, Grenoble, France, Sept 2021 - Aug 2022.
  • B.Sc. Electronic Systems Engineering, Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Damascus, Syria, Oct 2013 - Aug 2018.

Short Bio

  • (10-2022 to 10- 2025) PhD student at GIPSA-LAB, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. The PhD with title “Magneto-Visual-Inertial Navigation with Invariance and Learning: Improving Estimation in Benign Cases and under Attacks”, supervised by Hassen FOURATI, Alain KIBANGOU, and Christophe PRIEUR. Teaching assistant for Masters M1 and M2, at Grenoble-INP, ENSE3, and Université Grenoble Alpes, Phitem.

  • (07-2024 to 10-2024) Visiting PhD at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, working on a project titled “Enhancing the Security and Reliability of Navigation Systems”.

  • (02-2022 to 08-2022) M.Sc. Intern at GIPSA-LAB, University of Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. The internship with title: Q-Learning-Based Noise Covariance Adaptation in Kalman Filter For Velocity Estimation.

  • (09-2021 to 09-2022) M.Sc. Mobile, Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS), at Grenoble-INP, ENSE3, Grenoble, France.

  • (01-2019 to 09-2021) Assistant teacher for undergraduate engineering students at Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology & Member of the scientific committee at Distinction and Creativity Agency, Damascus, Syria.

  • (09-2013 to 10-2018) B.Sc. Electronic Systems Engineering at Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology, Damascus, Syria.
  • Qualified 3 times to the Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship (ACPC) as a contestant in Egypt (2016, 2017, 2018).

  • Qualified 3 times to the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) as a contestant (Thailand-2011, Estonia-2012, Denmark-2013).

Skills

  • Languages: Arabic (Native), English (Advanced), and French (Intermediate).
  • Programming Languages: Python, Matlab, C, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Dart.
  • Software Development Tools: Simulink, Spyder, Visual Studio Code, Git.
  • Other Computer skills: Latex, Overleaf, Zotero.
  • Microcontrollers: Beaglebone, Arduino, AVR.