Mostafa Wahby
Postdoctoral researcher @ ITI - University of Lübeck
Education
2015 – 2019
University of Lübeck
Ph.D. Computer Science
Lübeck, Germany
in Swarm Robotics and Machine Learning.
Thesis title: Autonomous Shaping of Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann
2011 – 2014
Paderborn University
M.Sc. Computer Science
Paderborn, Germany
Specialization: Embedded Systems and System Software.
Thesis title: “Autonomous Parallel Parking of a Car-Like Mobile Robot by Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heiko Hamann
2003 – 2008
MSA University
Greenwich University
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
Cairo, Egypt
B.Sc. Project: “Hardware and Software Implementation of an Mp3 Player"
Exployment History
10.2020 – Present
University of Lübeck
Postdoctoral researcher
Lübeck, Germany
Training world models for dangerous pedestrian behavior prediction in autonomous driving and developing methods to increase explainability in AI systems.
10.2019 – 09.2020
IRIDIA - Universite' Libre de Bruxelles
Postdoctoral researcher
Brussels, Belgium
Investigating self-organized networks in heterogeneous robot swarms (UAVs and ground robots) for formation control and path planning. Building custom UAVs based on UP Core Linux board and pixhawk flight controller and installing Raspberry Pi extensions on e-puck robots to improve their computational capabilities.
04.2019 – 09.2019
University of Lübeck
Postdoctoral researcher
Lübeck, Germany
Building a swarm of plant-shaping robots within the EU project "florarobotica".
06.2013 – 10.2013
MSA AUER GmbH
Internship
Berlin, Germany
Developing desktop/web applications using C#, WPF, and ASP.NET MVC 4. Developing android application using Xamarin.
01.2013 – 03.2013
Heinz Nixdorf Institute
Student Research Assistant
Paderborn, Germany
Developing a software which manages and monitors a driving simulator system (TRAFFIS).
01.2010 – 01.20211
Silverkey Technologies
Software Developer
Giza, Egypt
Dveloping web applications using ASP.NET MVC.
Journal Articles
Heinrich, M. K., Soorati, M. D., Kaiser, T., Wahby, M., and Hamann, H. (2019). Robustness, scalability, and self-x features in industrial applications. it - Information Technology, 61(4), 159–167. doi:10.1515/itit-2019-0003
Heinrich, M. K., von Mammen, S., Hofstadler, D. N., Wahby, M., Zahadat, P., Skrzypczak, T., Soorati, M. D., Krela, R., Kwiatkowski, W., Schmickl, T., Ayres, P., Stoy, K., and Hamann, H. (2019). Constructing living buildings: a review of relevant technologies for a novel application of biohybrid robotics. Royal Society Interface, 16(156), 20190238. doi:10.1098/rsif.2019.0238
Wahby, M., Heinrich, M. K., Hofstadler, D. N., Petzold, J., Kuksin, I., Zahadat, P., Schmickl, T., Ayres, P., and Hamann, H. (2019). Robotic Sensing and Stimuli Provision for Guided Plant Growth. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 149. doi:10.3791/59835
Wahby, M., Heinrich, M. K., Hofstadler, D. N., Neufeld, E., Kuksin, I., Zahadat, P., Schmickl, T., Ayres, P., and Hamann, H. (2018). Autonomously Shaping Natural Climbing Plants: a Bio-Hybrid Approach. Royal Society Open Science, 5(10). doi:10.1098/rsos.180296
Hofstadler, D. N., Wahby, M., Heinrich, M. K., Hamann, H., Zahadat, P., Ayres, P., and Schmickl, T. (2017). Evolved Control of Natural Plants: Crossing the Reality Gap for User-Defined Steering of Growth and Motion. ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), 12(3), 15. doi:10.1145/3124643
Hamann, H., Khaluf, Y., Botev, J., Divband Soorati, M., Ferrante, E., Kosak, O., Montanier, J., Mostaghim, S., Redpath, R., Timmis, J., Veenstra, F., Wahby, M., Zamuda, A. (2016). Hybrid Societies: Challenges and Perspectives in the Design of Collective Behavior in Self-Organizing Systems. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 3(14). doi:10.3389/frobt.2016.00014
Wahby, M., Weinhold, A. and Hamann, H. (2016). Revisiting BEECLUST: Aggregation of Swarm Robots with Adaptiveness to Different Light Settings. EAI Endorsed Trans. Collaborative Computing, 2(9), e1. doi:10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262877
Conference Proceedings
Hamann, H., Bogdan, S., Diaz-Espejo, A., García-Carmona, L., Hernandez-Santana, V., Kernbach, S., ... Wahby, M.. Watchplant: networked bio-hybrid systems for pollution monitoring of urban areas. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference. Alife ’21. (accepted). MIT Press.
Wahby, M., Petzold, J., and Hamann, H. (2021). A concept of full plant morphology modeling for robot-plant bio-hybrids. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference. Alife ’21. (accepted). MIT Press.
Jamshidpey, A., Zhu, W., Wahby, M., Allwright, M., Heinrich, M. K., and Dorigo, M. (2020). Multi-robot coverage using self-organized networks for central coordination. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. ANTS ’20. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-60376-2_17
Eschke, C., Heinrich, M. K., Wahby, M., Schmickl, T., and Hamann, H. (2019). Self-organized adaptive paths in multi-robot manufacturing: reconfigurable and pattern-independent fibre deployment. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IROS ’19. doi:10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967951
Wahby, M., Petzold, J., Eschke, C., Schmickl, T., and Hamann, H. (2019). Collective Change Detection: Adaptivity to Dynamic Swarm Densities and Light Conditions in Robot Swarms. In Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference (pp. 165–172). Alife ’19. Newcastle, United Kingdom: MIT Press. doi:10.1162/isal_a_00233
Wahby, M., Heinrich, M. K., Hofstadler, D. N., Zahadat, P., Risi, S., Ayres, P., Schmickl, T., and Hamann, H. (2018). A Robot to Shape your Natural Plant: The Machine Learning Approach to Model and Control Bio-Hybrid Systems. In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 165–172). GECCO ’18. Kyoto, Japan: ACM. doi:10.1145/3205455.3205516
Hamann, H., Markarian, C., Meyer auf der Heide, F., and Wahby, M.. (2018). Pick, Pack, & Survive: Charging Robots in a Modern Warehouse based on Online Connected Dominating Sets. In LIPIcs-Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (Vol. 100). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.22
Heinrich, M. K., Wahby, M., Divband Soorati, M., Hofstadler, D. N., Zahadat, P., Ayres, P., Støy, K., and Hamann, H. (2016). Self-Organized Construction with Continuous Building Material: Higher Flexibility based on Braided Structures. In Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Self-organising Construction (SOCO) (pp. 154–159). IEEE. doi:10.1109/FAS-W.2016.43
Wahby, M., Hofstadler, D. N., Heinrich, M. K., Zahadat, P., and Hamann, H. (2016). An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to the Control of Plant Growth and Motion: Modeling Plants and Crossing the Reality Gap. In Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2016 IEEE 10th International Conference on (pp. 21–30). IEEE. doi:10.1109/SASO.2016.8
Hamann, H., Wahby, M., Schmickl, T., Zahadat, P., Hofstadler, D. N., Støy, K., Risi, S., Faina, A., Veenstra, F., Kernbach, S., Kuksin, I., Kernbach, O., Ayres, P., and Wojtaszek, P. (2015). Flora robotica – Mixed Societies of Symbiotic Robot-Plant Bio-Hybrids. In Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2015) (pp. 1102–1109). IEEE. doi:10.1109/SSCI.2015.158
Wahby, M., Divband Soorati, M., von Mammen, S., and Hamann, H. (2015). Evolution of Controllers for Robot-Plant Bio-Hybdrids: A Simple Case Study Using a Model of Plant Growth and Motion. In Proc. of the 25th Workshop on Computational Intelligence) (pp. 67–86). KIT Scientific Publishing. doi:10.5445/KSP/1000049620
Wahby, M. and Hamann, H. (2015). On the Tradeoff between Hardware Protection and Optimization Success: A Case Study in Onboard Evolutionary Robotics for Autonomous Parallel Parking. In Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2015) (Vol. 9028, pp. 759–770). Springer [best paper nominee (EvoRobot track)]. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16549-3_61