Umer Huzaifa

His teaching interests include robotics, control, and dynamics and his research interests include legged locomotion, social robotics, control systems, and dynamics. He has many research publications to his credit and several academic honors and awards, including Best Talk on Controls and Decision at CSL Student Conference 2019, and Alumni Teaching Fellowship at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In his free time, he enjoys engineering outreach, reading books on history and biographies, being outdoors and singing.

Specific Research Area

• Robotics, Cyberphysical Systems

Professional Associations

• IEEE, Robotics and Automation Society

Research

• Mathematical Models for Novel Robot systems
• Prototyping of Human-assistive Devices
• Stylistic Movement Generation in Bipedal Robots
• System Identification using Machine Learning

Companies

• Assistant Professor DePaul University (2020)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2019 — 2020)
• Graduate Research Assistant Robot Automation and Dance Lab University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015 — 2019)
• Graduate Research Assistant Robot Automation and Dance Lab University of Virginia (2014 — 2015)
• Graduate Research Assistant Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab University of Arkansas at Little Rock (2014 — 2014)
• Laboratory Engineer Control And Communication Systems Lab EME College, NUST (2012 — 2014)
• Intern Right Hand Soft (SMC-Private) Limited (2011 — 2011)