Hussein Sibai
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About me
I'm an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department in McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.
My research group works on developing reliable robots. We address theoretical and practical research questions across the autonomy stack: perception, planning, and control. We leverage tools from deep (reinforcement) learning, formal methods for cyber-physical systems, control theory, and robotics. Current topics of interest: planning and control under uncertainty, foundation models for robotics, (neural) certified control, safe reinforcement learning, and formal methods for ML-enabled systems.
Between December 2021 and December 2022, I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California at Berkeley, co-mentored by Murat Arcak and Sanjit Seshia.
I received my Ph.D. from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2021, advised by Sayan Mitra at the Coordinated Science Lab. I received my BE degree in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in May 2014 and my MS in ECE from UIUC in December 2017.
Awards & fellowships
ACM SRC Gold Medal, Graduate level, CPS-IoT Week, 2021
Ernest A. Reid fellowship, UIUC, 2021
Mavis Future Faculty fellowship, UIUC, 2020
Rambus fellowship, UIUC, 2020
Best paper award finalist, ATVA, 2019
CMU CPS V &V Workshop travel award, CMU, 2019
Fall conference travel grant, UIUC, 2019
Rambus fellowship, UIUC, 2019
Best poster award, HSCC, 2018
Best paper award finalist, HSCC, 2017
Dean’s honor list, ECE, AUB, 2010-2014
Booz and Company endowed award, ECE, AUB, 2014
First Place, Lebanese Collegiate Programming Contest (LCPC), 2013
Top 5%, IEEExtreme 5.0 Programming Contest, 2012