Mostafa Wahby

Projects: NEUPA (BMBF) and Watchplant (EU) Leading teams of researchers to: • Train ANN-based pedestrian and cyclist behavior prediction models (e.g., LSTMs and Transformers). • Build tools that automatically navigate and enhance world models. • Perform perspective translation. • Apply XAI methods to explain the trained models. • Develop energy-efficient wireless sensor nodes for phytosensing. • Develop robot swarm algorithms visualization tool that enables explaining the real-time robots' behavior in AR.

Project: Mergeable Nervous Systems for Robot Swarms • Investigating self-organized networks in heterogeneous robot swarms (UAVs and ground robots) for formation control and path planning. • Building custom UAVs based on UP Core Linux board and pixhawk flight controller and installing Raspberry Pi extensions on e-puck robots to improve their computational capabilities. • Constructing 200 slot battery charging stations for robot swarms.

Tasks: • Developing desktop applications using C#, WPF. • Developing web-based applications using ASP.NET MVC 4. • Developing an Android application using Xamarin.

Task: Developing a software which manages and monitors a driving simulator system (TRAFFIS) using VB.NET.

Tasks: • Developing the back-end web application of "MIDAS" Project. • Developing an algorithm that efficiently assigns money transfer orders in MIDAS. • Designing Database models and writing Unit-Tests.

Tasks: • Installation and management of computer networks. • Maintaining computer hardware and software.

Swarm Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Grade: 1.0 thesis: “Autonomous Shaping of Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids” – in the EU-Horizon 2020 project florarobotica Main contributions: • Extended robot swarm decentralized algorithms for adaptivity and fault tolerance in dynamic conditions. • Developed a swarm of plant shaping robots. • Developed modular robotic systems for semi-autonomous construction. • Trained plant growth models (LSTMs) and evolved plant steering ANN controllers.

Specialization: Embedded Systems and System Software Master thesis: (Grade: 1.0) “Autonomous Parallel Parking of a Car-Like Mobile Robot by Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks” Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann Group project: “FLYNET III: Cooperative Communication in Flying Sensor Network” Highlights: • Contributed in building UAVs (quadcopters) for FLYNET III project group. • Built a car-like robot and evolved ANN controllers for autonomous parking.

Bachelor thesis: (Grade: B+) “Hardware and Software Implementation of an MP3 Player” Projects: Object Avoider Robot (Grade: A) and Line Follower Robot (Grade: B+)