Artificial Intelligence Robotics and Control Systems Laboratory (AIRoCS)

Abdalla’s research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on AI-driven safe learning for control, compositional analysis of large-scale systems, and symbolic control / control barrier functions for stability and safety in complex networks.

Email: Abdalla.Swikir@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

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Ashok Kumar Saini is a Research Engineer I at MBZUAI’s AIRoCS Lab (B.Tech MNIT Jaipur; ex-Research Associate, MBZUAI; ex-Project Associate, IIT Kanpur; ex-GET, Orangewood). He builds safe, learning-based robotic manipulation with geometric control and formal guarantees (ROS2/MoveIt/MuJoCo, CV, IL/RL, CLF/CBF).

Email: ashok.kumar@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Swapnil is a Robotics PhD student at MBZUAI (MSc Robotics, Bristol; ex-Founding Engineer, listt.io). He builds AI-driven agri-robots (ROS/ROS2, CV, deep learning, hardware), holds five patents, and won IEEE Pune Section Innovator of the Year.

Email: Swapnil.Mane@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Grik is a Robotics PhD student at MBZUAI focused on decentralized, safe multi-agent RL for UAV swarms. Ex-Skoltech, he built swarm landing/navigation and drone-racing perception, and evaluated AnyLoc/VPR.

Email: Grik.Tadevosyan@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Saood is a Robotics PhD student at MBZUAI (Gold Medalist, Master’s in Robotics & Automation, AMU, Aligarh). He works on autonomous systems, SLAM, and biomimetic/soft robotics (fish-inspired AUVs) using ROS, computer vision, path planning, and dynamic modeling.

Email: Saood.Ahmad@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Malak Mansour is a second-year Master’s student in Robotics researching Vision-Language-Action models to improve robot robustness and generalization. She aims to pursue a PhD to advance intelligent robotic systems with real-world impact

Email: Malak.Mansour@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Rawda is a Robotics Master’s student at MBZUAI with a BSc in Electrical Engineering. She works on computer vision, safe learning, and multi-robot systems to make autonomous robots more reliable.

Email: Rawda.Alsamahi@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Mohammed is a Robotics Master’s student at MBZUAI studying intelligent robotic systems that combine control, perception, and learning. He’s focused on RL for control, multi-robot coordination, and safe aerial-ground cooperation.

Email: Mohammed.Kharroub@mbzuai.ac.ae ·

Research on AI-based learning and control algorithms for robotic systems; contributions across robust control and autonomy.

Email: yancheng.zhu@mbzuai.ac.ae ·