Syed Mehdi
PHD Researcher at KU Leuven
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolSyed Mehdi is a robotics engineer and PhD researcher at KU Leuven with nine years of hands-on experience spanning surgical robotics research, industrial automation, haptics, and teleoperation. He has built and integrated perception and control systems for autonomous mobile robots, manipulators (UR5/UR10), and embedded 3D scanning platforms, and has operational experience in semiconductor and beverage production automation. His academic work focuses on robot-assisted surgery while prior research contributed to continuum robot interfaces, ferrofluid tactile displays, and shared teleoperation frameworks—blending deep technical research with practical field deployments. Comfortable across PLCs, ROS-based SLAM, and embedded systems, he bridges lab innovations and production-ready robotics solutions. Based in Leuven, he brings a unique combination of industrial troubleshooting, control engineering, and surgical-robotics research maturity.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Surgical Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Surgical Robotics at KU LeuvenHigh School, Pre-Engineering, High School, Pre-Engineering at Government College University (GCU), LahoreBachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreMaster's degree, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics, Haptics and Teleoperation), Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering (Robotics, Haptics and Teleoperation) at Korea University of Technology and Education
Github Skills (90)
computer-graphics10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
cpp10
slam-algorithms10
mesh-processing10
intel10
rendering10
cluster-computing10
sdk10
visual-odometry10
computer-vision10
orb10
opengl10
g2o10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
zainmehdi/Proprioception-Code--Unity3D
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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