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Overview 👨🏽‍🎓: I'm a robotics software engineer and researcher, currently pursuing my PhD at the University of Washington advised by Dr. Sidd Srinivasa and Dr. Maya Cakmak.

Research Goal 🤖: To develop quality-of-life improving robots that work well with and around people.

Projects 🧑🏽‍💻: I have 8 years experience building end-to-end robot systems:

• ADA 🦾 (2021--present): Developed a robot-assisted feeding system for people with motor impairments.
  • Code: ada_feeding 🍝, feeding_web_interface 📱, ada_ros2 💻
• Stretch 🤖 (Summer 2024): Incorporated shared autonomy features into the Stretch mobile manipulator's online interface.
  • Code: stretch_web_teleop 🎮, hello-amal 🧑🏽
• Zipline Platform 2 Droid 🛬 (Winter 2023): Studied user perceptions of droid motion during delivery, worked with the planning and controls teams to integrate research insights into the autonomy stack.
• Office Robot 🤖 (2019--2021): Developed an office robot that can promote task success by intentionally asking people for help.
  • Code: kuri_wandering_robot 🛞, kuri_cmm_demo 🧐, human_help_user_study 🤝
• Shopkeeper Robot 🏪 (2018--2019): Developed a self-supervised deep learning model to predict socially appropriate shopkeeper responses to customers' multi-modal actions in a store.
  • Dataset: one-to-many human-human interaction 📈
• Podi 🧑‍🦯 (2016--2018): Developed a guide robot for people who are blind.
  • Code: IROS19-Human-Robot-Coupling 🚶‍♀️

Open Source Contributions 🧑🏽‍💻: I'm deeply commited to using and contributing to open-source code.

• New Features ✨: pymoveit2, moveit2, py_trees_ros, and roslibjs.
• Bug Fixes 🪲: pick_ik, web_video_server