National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia
Engineering degree.
About
Profile
Fresh Computer Science Engineering graduate with a strong interest in deep learning, reinforcement learning, embodied AI, and vision-language navigation for autonomous robots. I am interested in research and engineering positions where I can contribute to robotics, AI systems, and autonomous decision-making.
Education
Engineering Preparatory Institute of Monastir
National competitive exam rank: 56/650.
Experience
Selected engineering and research experience.
Research Intern · SPIN Lab, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Embodied AI and Vision-Language Navigation
Apr 2026 – Jul 2026
- Designed a modular Vision-Language Navigation prototype with a path toward ROS2 deployment.
- Built predictive world-model components to maintain probabilistic beliefs over unseen spaces.
- Integrated VLM perception, scene-graph memory, and an LLM planner for subgoal generation.
- Explored generative anticipation for future observation hypotheses under uncertainty.
AI / Robotics Engineer Intern · OORB, Tunisia
RL environments and control for legged robots
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
- Designed quadruped locomotion and manipulation RL environments in MuJoCo and Gymnasium.
- Trained PPO policies and integrated them into ROS2 nodes for real-time control.
- Built reproducible pipelines with Docker, Kubeflow, and TensorBoard on Linux.
Projects
Eurobot Competition · 2024
Autonomous Mobile Robot
- Implemented YOLO-based perception and LiDAR-based SLAM for environment understanding.
- Designed PID control pipelines using encoder feedback for reliable navigation.
- Deployed the robotic stack on Raspberry Pi and Jetson Nano with ROS2.
ENSI & OORB · 2025
LLM-Guided Robot Learning
- Developed an LLM-guided reinforcement learning framework inspired by reward synthesis workflows.
- Used language models to refine reward functions from environment feedback.
- Evaluated reward efficiency and behavior quality on sparse-reward MuJoCo tasks.
Publications
In preparation
Vision-Language Navigation for Embodied AI
Co-authored research manuscript covering predictive world models, grounded memory, and planning for autonomous navigation.
Skills
PyTorch
Transformers
Vision-Language Models
Reinforcement Learning
ROS2
MuJoCo
Gazebo
SLAM
Docker
Linux
Python
C++