Robotics Engineer · Genova, Italy
I build robots that work on real hardware, in industry and healthcare.
MSc Robotics Engineering at the University of Genova, with my thesis at ETH Zurich: a real-time ROS 2 system that fuses wearable sensors with an on-device language model to support rehabilitation.
Synchronized wearable sensing (eye tracking, ECG) with a local LLM on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, validated in a 12-participant study.
PID speed control on a mobile robot; position, current, force, admittance and impedance control on a DC-motor test rig.
SLAM and Nav2 navigation, PDDL task planning with PlanSys2, MoveIt on an ABB arm, and visual servoing taken from simulation to a real robot.
Exoskeleton sessions with spinal-cord-injury patients, gait studies with motion capture, and ROS training for 30+ students.
Who I am
I'm a robotics engineer who enjoys making robots work on real hardware, alongside the people who use them. After a BSc in Mechatronics Engineering at Ain Shams University in Cairo, where I graduated 6th in my class, I moved to Italy for an MSc in Robotics Engineering at the University of Genova and carried out my thesis at ETH Zurich, building a real-time ROS 2 system that fuses wearable sensor data with a locally-run language model to support rehabilitation.
Working in research labs, a rehabilitation lab with patients, and classrooms has taught me to combine careful engineering with clear communication: from tuning controllers on a motor test rig to running sessions with participants and teaching robotics to students.
My ambition is to grow into a senior robotics and control engineer on industrial and medical systems that go into real use, while continuing to build my own projects.
Outside work I'm building a robotics learning platform with remote access to real robots and simulation. I also teach robotics and STEM, and I like running, hiking and flying drones.
Where I've worked
Research, clinical lab work and teaching, most recent first.
SCAI Lab, ETH Zurich & DART Lab, Lake Lucerne Institute · Switzerland
Human-Centered Mechatronics Lab, Ain Shams University · Cairo
Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University · Cairo
UPEI Cairo Campus (University of Prince Edward Island) · Cairo
Edu-Zone STEAM Learning Centre · Cairo
What I've built
Open any project for the full write-up, architecture diagrams and videos.
A ROS 2 pipeline that fuses pupil data (Pupil Labs Neon) and heart-rate variability (Polar H10) into a live cognitive-load index, with spoken feedback from Qwen 2.5 3B running locally on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin.
The same autonomous mission solved two ways: a reactive visual-servoing state machine taken from Gazebo to a real Husarion ROSbot 2, and deliberative PDDL planning with PlanSys2 and Nav2.
A modular architecture for mapping, victim triage, structural-risk assessment and reporting, prototyped in ROS Noetic with UML design and rostest integration tests.
ABB arm driven from ROS via EGM/RWS with MoveIt, a custom YOLOv7 part detector (97% accuracy) on two RealSense cameras, and human-aware re-planning with MediaPipe and OctoMap.
Wireless insole with IMUs and force-sensitive resistors on an ESP32, with real-time gait-event detection, shank kinematics and a Python GUI.
Single-joint DC-motor rig used to implement and compare position, current, force, admittance and impedance control on real hardware.
Coffee-shop service robot with Gmapping SLAM and ROS navigation on a Jetson Nano, PID wheel control on an STM32, and customer emotion recognition.
Coursework and competitions from my BSc and exchange semester.
Computer Vision course · detection and counting on road video
Industrial Robotics course · URDF, MoveIt, Gazebo, PID
Mechatronics course · sensors, servos, mobile app
Erasmus+ exchange, UCLan · LabVIEW and Arduino
iHub robotics competition · first place
Embedded C, control, logic design, PCB, CAD
What I use
Grouped by area. The levels are the same ones I use in my CV.
Where I studied
2024 – 2026
University of Genova, Italy
Thesis at ETH Zurich (SCAI Lab) and the DART Lab, Lake Lucerne Institute: real-time ROS 2 multimodal sensing with LLM feedback for rehabilitation. Defense in December 2026.
2018 – 2023
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
GPA 3.53/4, ranked 6th in class. Graduation project (human-robot collaborative assembly) graded A+.
2020
University of Lancashire (formerly UCLan), UK
Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines. Fully funded; grade: Distinction.
Contact
I'm open to robotics and control engineering roles, in Italy or abroad, and happy to talk about any of these projects. Email is the fastest way to reach me: mooeyad@gmail.com