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Name Emran Yasser Moustafa
Label PhD Student @ University of Edinburgh
Email e.y.moustafa@sms.ed.ac.uk
Summary Aspiring roboticist passionate about reinforcement learning and autonomous systems, with academic and leadership experience across Europe.

Work

  • 2025.09 - Present
    PhD Student
    University of Edinburgh
    Shared autonomy for safer urban assistive driving.
  • 2025.06 - 2025.08
    Research Intern
    Trinity College Dublin
    Worked on model-based reinforcement learning for autonomous racing and traffic signal control.
  • 2024.04 - 2024.06
    Lab Assistant
    TU Delft
    Developed and improved ROS framework for drone swarm control. Supported public engagement projects.
  • 2023.07 - 2023.09
    Research Intern
    Flying Labs Madrid
    Built visual SLAM implementation of SuperGlue and SuperPoint for micro-air vehicles.
  • 2023.06 - 2023.07
    Research Intern
    Trinity College Dublin
    Developed and improved ROS framework for drone swarm control.
  • 2022.07 - 2022.09
    Research Intern
    Trinity College Dublin
    Worked on FPGA-based perception for autonomous driving.

Education

  • 2025 - 2029

    Scotland

    University of Edinburgh
    PhD — Informatics
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Planning & Control
    • Human-in-the-Loop
  • 2023 - 2024

    Netherlands

    TU Delft
    MSc (Exchange) — Robotics
    • Swarm Robotics
    • 3D Perception
  • 2020 - 2025

    Ireland

    Trinity College Dublin
    BEng & MEng — Computer and Electronic Engineering
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Computer Vision

Awards

Volunteer

  • Ireland

    RacingAI
    Founded a non-profit to grow the Irish robotics and autonomous navigation community.

  • Dublin, Ireland

    Formula Trinity
    Led AI team and managed autonomous racing projects.

  • Dublin, Ireland

    Do Sheal
    Co-founded an indie board game studio focused on real-world inspired strategy games.