Rumaisa Abdulhai

I am a senior at MIT studying Artificial Intelligence & Decision Making.

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Developed and trained a loop closure detection descriptor using GNNs for Hydra, a spatial perception system that builds a 3D Scene Graph of an indoor environment in real-time.

Developed a single-player Scrabble-playing robot using Drake and Python that is able to solve the game, manipulate the pieces to play on the board using suction, and refill the pieces in play through manipulation.

My team and I programmed a robot using ROS and Python to perform the following tasks: wall following, parking controller using visual servoing, Monte Carlo Localization, path planning and control with A*, RRT*, and pure pursuit, and lane follower around the indoor track field at MIT.

Developed an autonomous indoor drone application to help police fight mass school shootings. Simulated mapping and navigation of drone to a point of emergency inside a school and collected real-time information of the location & perpetrator(s) using ROS, Python, and Gazebo Simulator.

Taught high-school seniors the fundamentals of ROS, Python, OpenCV, and PID controls to program DJI's Tello drone to navigate autonomously.

Taught Java and video game development to Syrian refugee students in Jordan. Ran an online 10-week program from January to March in 2021.

Taught a 4-week introductory Machine Learning and Python course to college students at Jahangirabad Instute of Technology (JIT) in Uttar Pradesh.