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I am Firas.

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My
Education

since Nov 2021

Ph.D. Student at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group
TU Darmstadt, Germany
Robot Learning

Oct 2017 - April 2021

Master of Science
TU Braunschweig, Germany
Electronic Systems

April 2017 - Dec 2019

Master of Science
TU Braunschweig, Germany
Mechanical Engineering Field Automotive Engieering

Oct 2013 - May 2017

Bachelor of Science
TU Braunschweig, Germany
Industrial Engineering Field Mechanical Engineering

My
Experience

August 2020 - April 2021

IRP lab @ TU Braunschweig
Student at the Institute of Robotics
and Process Control
(2. Master Thesis)

Comparison of reinforcement learning algorithms and evolution strategies for joint-space robotic manipulation. Training a pose estimator for real-world objects based on simulated data only. Introducing redundancy resolution to policy search to yield saver and more natural-looking policies. Evaluation on a simulated and real Franka Emika Panda robot arm.

April 2019 - Dec 2019

Volkswagen Group
Machine Learning Intern
(1. Master Thesis)
Division: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Development of a tactical maneuver planner for automated urban driving using deep reinforcement learning and tree search algorithms. Combining deep reinforcement learning and dynamic programming to speed-up training and enhance the overall performance.

Oct 2018 - Mar 2019

Volkswagen Group
Sotftware Engineering Intern
Division: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

Development of a modular simulation environment for tactical maneuver planning in urban scenarios. 

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Sep 2016 - April 2017

Daimler Group
Simulation Engineering Intern
(i.e, Bachelor Thesis)
Division: Energy System Analysis

Development of a plug-in hybrid fuel cell drive train model for tank-to-wheel energy comparisons to other conventional, hybrid and battery-electric drivetrains.

Technical
Skills

Python
C++
ROS
Linux

Paper accepted at ICLR!

Our Paper, Time-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Stateful Policies, was accepted at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024! We introduce a novel training

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LocoMuJoCo accepted at ROL@NeurIPS

Introducing the first imitation learning benchmark tailored towards locomotion. This benchmark comes with many different environments and motion capture dataset facilitating research in locomotion. We

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