Houssam Abbas is an assistant professor and researcher specializing in control and simulation-based verification of autonomous systems, with 11 years of experience bridging academia and industry. His work focuses on developing methods resilient to real-world constraints such as black-box components and imprecise implementations—skills grounded in eight years as a pre-silicon verification CAD engineer at Intel where he led RTL functional and low-power verification and UPF methodology. He brings a practical, systems-oriented perspective from roles spanning postdoctoral research in autonomous navigation and cardiac device modeling to hands-on feature-extraction work in robotics. Based in Corvallis, Oregon, he combines rigorous theoretical research with deep familiarity of semiconductor verification needs, making his contributions especially relevant for deploying provably safe autonomy in realistic hardware-software stacks.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University
B.E., Computer and Communications Engineering, B.E., Computer and Communications Engineering at American University of Beirut
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Houssam Abbas - Assistant Professor at Oregon State University