Summary
Khalid Halba is an Associate Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy with nine years of experience bridging academic research and standards-driven practice in autonomy and assurance. His trajectory includes a NIST guest researcher role and a Hopkins–NIST PREP fellowship, reflecting deep engagement with measurement, validation, and trustworthy systems. Holding an engineering MS and pursuing a PhD from Université Grenoble Alpes, he combines telecommunications engineering roots with rigorous research methods to tackle real-world resilience and verification problems. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he brings both policy-aware perspective and hands-on technical expertise to interdisciplinary teams, often operating at the intersection of standards, experimentation, and deployment. An understated strength is his ability to translate standards-level requirements into reproducible research artifacts that inform both industry practice and academic publication.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CNC, CNC at CPGE - Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes
MS of Engineering Degree, MS of Engineering Degree at Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs
English, French, tamazight, Arabic