Research

KAUST Research

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

My current research and my earlier experimental work in soft robotics.

Current research · KAUST

Fault-aware cooperative sensing and trust

I am researching how cooperative autonomous vehicles can share and combine sensor information reliably when some measurements are faulty or compromised. My work explores how differences between sensors, uncertainty, and unreliable contributions affect cooperation and decision-making across vehicles.

I am reviewing and comparing published approaches to fault diagnosis, robust aggregation, and trust-aware cooperation, and formalizing how these components could fit into an overall system model.

Alongside this, I am defining evaluation plans to study reliability and security, while considering practical communication and computation limits.

Research areas & approaches explored

Cooperative sensingSensor fault diagnosisRobust aggregationTrust-aware coordinationMulti-agent systemsHeterogeneous sensing

RoboNex · AI for service-robot interaction

I am working on AI for RoboNex, exploring how a service robot can interpret video, audio and interaction context to understand human behavior and respond appropriately.

My work explores multimodal perception and intent recognition, including how large models can support data preparation and how smaller models could support efficient inference. I am reviewing and comparing approaches for behavior understanding and context-aware robot interaction.

AI tools & approaches explored

Multimodal AIComputer visionYOLOVision-language models (VLMs)Large language models (LLMs)Model distillationGraph and sequence modeling

Liquid crystal elastomer soft actuators

Experimental research on liquid crystal elastomers for soft robotics, from material preparation and fabrication to heat-responsive motion, load testing, and a solar-tracker demonstrator.

Fabrication, material preparation, and experimental testing of responsive polymer actuators.

2023 research & experiments