I build robots and vision models that check their own work.
I work on robots that turn language into action and can be trusted about what they did. My interests are robotic manipulation, task and motion planning, affordance-based control and vision-language models.
Training-free, open-set video anomaly detection. A vision-language model reads stratified frame grids and proposes anomalies in words; only proposals that recur across samplings survive; Grounding DINO and SAM 2 turn them into masks. Highest Pixel-AUROC on UCSD Ped2 among compared methods (77.59), with 2.7× fewer model calls than per-frame querying.
M. Eltahir, A. O. Ibrahim*, O. Siralkhatim*, T. Abdallah, S. Mohamed. LSVOS Workshop, ECCV 2026, Malmö. *Equal contribution.
Language-driven manipulation where every layer is checked against something independent: affordances come from the robot's own IK and collision checker, grasps are verified from joint states, and success is read from the simulator, never from the planner's report. ROS 2, MoveIt 2, Gazebo. Journal paper in preparation.
One real episode: “put both yellow cubes in the blue bin”. Step through what the robot did and what it reported.
My BSc thesis, graded A+. Natural-language instructions become Franka Panda manipulation in Webots: an LLM reasons about the task, affordances ground each step, and inverse kinematics executes it. Supervised by Dr. Magdi B. M. Amein.
List what you have to do and Plan-it builds a realistic seven-day schedule around it, with a home-screen widget. Flutter, Supabase, an LLM planner and RevenueCat subscriptions.
An offline, privacy-first expense tracker: accounts, loans and monthly reports, with nothing leaving the phone. Built in Flutter.
For people applying to everything at once: jobs, scholarships, grad school. The number of days left is the loudest thing on the screen. Offline, no account, with reminders.
Coming to Google Play obdevapps.com ↗
In 2025 I led content for IndabaX Sudan, the national AI conference, back after two years of war, and taught eight of its workshops.
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