Research Associate
Shafeef Omar
Technical University of Munich
Assistant Professorship of AI Planning in Dynamic Environments (Prof. Khadiv)
Postal address
Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60_62
80992 München
- Office hours: Mon-Fri 10:00 - 17:00
- Homepage
- shafeef.omar@tum.de
Bio
Shafeef Omar is a PhD candidate at ATARI lab, specializing in robotics and artificial intelligence. Previously, he was a research fellow (2022-2024) with the Dynamic Legged Systems Lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Before that, he was a research associate (2021-2022) with the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras with a Dual Degree in Engineering Design. In his current research, he focuses on inducing biases using model-based priors to learn safe and robust vision-aided loco-manipulation policies for legged robots.
- S. Omar, L. Amatucci, V. Barasuol, G. Turrisi, and C. Semini. Safesteps: Learning safer footstep planning policies for legged robots via model-based priors. In 2023 IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), pages 1–8. IEEE, 2023 [Project Website]
- S. Omar, L. Amatucci, G. Turrisi, V. Barasuol, and C. Semini, “Fast convex visual foothold adaptation for quadrupedal locomotion,” in 4th Italian Conference in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (I-RIM),2022, pp. 143–146
- Research Fellow, Dynamic Legged Systems Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genoa
- Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
[2016 - 2021] Dual Degree (Bacher and Master of Technology) in Engineering Design
Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Optimal Control, Hierarchical Learning