Rumaisa Abdulhai
Software Development Engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRumaisa Abdulhai is a software development engineer specializing in robotics and spatial perception, with eight years of experience building real-time systems and autonomy tools. Currently at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics and as a research assistant at MIT, she has contributed to loop-closure descriptors for 3D dynamic scene graphs and built AR tooling for Apple Vision Pro to aid warehouse workflows. Her background blends hands-on robotics research (Hydra spatial perception) with applied industry work in multi-destination robot planning, and she holds an MEng in Robotics and a BS in AI & Decision Making from MIT. Beyond engineering, Rumaisa has led international teaching programs—training Syrian refugee students in Java and game development—and is committed to empowering women and girls through computer science. An unexpected thread through her career is combining cutting-edge AI research with human-centered deployment, from classroom instruction to warehouse operator interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Enrollment with Mass Academy, Dual Enrollment with Mass Academy at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMassachusetts Academy of Math and Science at WPIBachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intelligence & Decision Making, Bachelor of Science - BS Artificial Intelligence & Decision Making at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyShrewsbury High SchoolHumanities Concentration Hindi-Urdu, Humanities Concentration Hindi-Urdu at Harvard University
English, Hindi, Urdu
Github Skills (24)
mass10
robot10
gazebosim9
git9
github9
ignition9
gazebo-simulator9
ros9
stem9
autonomous-robots8
robotics8
simulation8
patch8
rover7
subversion7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rumaisaabdulhai/quad_sim
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
Autonomous Indoor Quadcopter Simulated with ROS & Gazebo for a STEM I Project at Mass Academy | Fall 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 49 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
ignitionsimulationnavigationgazebogazebosim
rumaisaabdulhai/HiMCM_Charge
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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