Sleiman Safaoui
Senior Associate
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSleiman Safaoui is a PhD-trained robotics researcher and engineer with nine years of experience building risk-aware autonomy and deploying motion-planning and control algorithms on real multi-agent platforms. Currently an Associate at Exponent after research roles at UT Dallas and MERL, he specializes in sampling-, optimization-, and learning-based solutions that guarantee safety under prediction and process uncertainty. He developed tools like cvxRiskOpt, led hardware testbeds for RC cars and quadrotors, and translated novel MPC and RL ideas into physical experiments and publications. Comfortable collaborating across academia and industry, he also mentors students and manages lab hardware—bridging deep theory with hands-on system integration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasElectrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at American University of Beirut
Github Skills (15)
ros-driver9
data-structures8
java8
swarm7
python7
javascript7
sphero6
code-generation5
crazyflie5
cvxpy2
algorithms2
simulation-framework1
ros1
motion-planning1
hardware1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
The-SS/Temporal_Logic_Resources
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
TSummersLab/super_como
Jun 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:38 commits, 23 pushes in 10 months
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