Abdalla Swikir

Professor

MBZUAI

Abdalla Swikir is an Assistant Professor of Robotics at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also an IEEE Senior Member and the recipient of the 2023 IEEE CSS George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award and the 2023 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters Best Paper Award. In addition, he is actively involved in several IEEE Robotics and Automation Society committees. Abdalla Swikir also serves on the Advisory Board and the Steering Committee of the International Elite Summer School in Robotics and Entrepreneurship. Before joining MBZUAI, Abdalla Swikir was a Senior Scientist and Teaching Coordinator at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), where he led the Robot Learning research groups and coordinated and delivered various robotics and control courses. Furthermore, he led several high-profile EU projects with a focus ranging from robotic design to applying AI to large-scale robotic systems. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, focusing on pioneering new strategies that harness AI's potential to enhance robotic control systems. Abdalla Swikir is particularly drawn to designing and analyzing innovative robotic systems that integrate AI-driven safe learning methodologies, empowering robots and autonomous systems to adapt seamlessly to their environments while upholding safety standards. His work involves the compositional analysis of large-scale interconnected systems and the use of symbolic control and control barrier functions to ensure stability across infinite networks.