Hisham Khalil

Experience

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  Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

  Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

  Robotics Research Intern

  • Reproduced human motion from videos using MediaPipe Pose for imitation by Pepper humanoid robot.• Developed Python scripts for computing joint kinematics and controlling the robot using NAOqi framework.• Discussed and analyzed with professors and graduate students 10+ research papers related to control of space robotics, roboethics, human-centered design, and soft actuators as part of GV Lab Robotics Reading Club.

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  Sun* Vietnam

  Dec 2020 - Oct 2021

  Communication Intern

  Trained under an intensive Japanese language program for job hunting in Japan.

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  Center for Artificial Intelligent and Robotics (CAIRO)

  Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

  Undergraduate Researcher

  • Constructed a human gait dataset of 2 million points from captured motion videos using data augmentation.• Applied LSTM networks using PyTorch to diagnose ataxic patients from gait sequences with 99.8% accuracy.• Worked on machine learning projects for 2 professors for their research on river conditions in Malaysia.

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  NSW Automation Sdn Bhd

  Aug 2022 - Oct 2022

  Mechanical Design Engineering Intern

  • Designed 4 prototypes of PCB magazines for semiconductor fluid dispensing machines using PTC Creo.• Increased machine assembly efficiency by optimizing pneumatic actuator and pressure sensor manifold designs.• Produced detailed documentations to production for assembling and testing volumetric pump service stations. • Established alliance with Intel by servicing 5 semiconductor testing chips for R&D purposes.

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  The University of Tokyo

  Apr 2023 - Sept 2023

  Research Student

  • Developed a heterogeneous graph to represent human physical state during human-robot interactions.• Implemented a variational graph auto-encoder using PyTorch Geometric to extract latent embeddings from the human state representation highlighting human perceptions towards collaborative robots.• Assisted in developing a deep reinforcement learning framework for adaptivity of social robotic objects.

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  Active & Interactive Robotics Lab

  Jan 2024 - now

  Graduate Researcher