Reem Ashour
Lead Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolReem Ashour is a lead researcher and research engineer with 12 years of experience driving robotics and autonomy projects from Khalifa University research to industry deployment at the Technology Innovation Institute. She specializes in multi-modal mapping, semantic-aware exploration, and UAV/robot perception and actuation, with deep hands-on experience using robotics operating systems and AI for mapping, labeling, and risk assessment in indoor environments. A proven team player and technical leader, she moves projects from research gaps to practical solutions and has supervised teaching and lab work during her doctoral and master's studies. Notably, her PhD work at KUCARS combined semantic mapping with multi-sensor risk assessment for UAVs—an uncommon blend of perception, safety analysis, and applied autonomy. Based in Abu Dhabi, she bridges academic rigor and applied innovation to deliver research that informs real-world robotic systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Khalifa University
Github Skills (26)
unet-image-segmentation8
autonomous-robots7
motion-planning7
ros6
mpc6
mobilenet6
ignition6
robotics6
pybullet5
densenet5
java5
semantic-segmentation4
graph4
image-segmentation4
deep-learning4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kucars/haptic_teleoperation
Apr 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
kucars/kuri_mbzirc_challenge_1
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:76 commits, 59 pushes in 2 months
java
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