Department: 1ENG Mechanics and industrial production

Area: 1ENG Automation and Robotics-EAUTO

Research Area: 1ENG Embedded systems and intelligent systems for industrial systems

Faculty: 1 Faculty of Engineering (ENG)

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Personal web: https://sites.google.com/view/abudakka/

Doctor by the Universitat Politècnica de València with the thesis Trajectory planning for industrial robot using genetic algorithms 2011. Supervised by Dr. Francisco Valero Chuliá.

I received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Birzeit University, Palestine in 2003 and his DEA and Ph.D. degrees in robotics motion planning from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain in 2006 and 2011, respectively. In 2012 he started his first postdoc at Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. Between 2013 and 2016 he held a visiting professorship at the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation at the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Postdoc at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). From 2019 to 2022, he was a Research Fellow at Intelligent Robotics Group, Aalto University. Then in 2022, he moved to the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technische Universität München, Germany, to serve as a Senior Scientist and leader of the Robot Learning group. Currently, he is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, Mondragon University, Spain. RESEARCH INTERESTS My research lies in the intersection of control theory, differential geometry, and machine learning, in order to enhance robot manipulation performance and safety.