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  EE FACULTY CANDIDACY TALK "BRIDGING ALGORITHMS AND HARDWARE: TOWARDS SAFE, REAL-TIME, AND INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC AUTONOMY"

  Date: January 21, 2026
  Time: 10:00 AM
  Location: EE Reading Room

  Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Ali Murtaza
  

  The deployment of autonomous systems in unstructured, human-centric environments demands a rigorous balance between algorithmic sophistication and computational feasibility. In this talk, I will present a unified framework for the design of safe, intelligent, and real-time robotic systems. I will first discuss my work on safety-critical control, where I integrate Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) with operational-space dynamics to guarantee safety against singularities and collisions without sacrificing tracking performance. I will demonstrate how these frameworks have been successfully deployed on platforms ranging from robotic manipulators to humanoid robots. Moving beyond pure control, I will discuss hybrid architectures that combine model-based methods with data-driven learning, including the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as semantic task planners. The concurrent execution of these large-scale inference models and hard real-time control loops creates significant computational bottlenecks. To bridge this gap, I will share my future research vision on algorithm-hardware co-design architectures tailored for next-generation autonomy centered around human-robot interaction. I will discuss how these efficient, safety-guaranteed frameworks can be applied to high-stakes domains, including rehabilitation robotics and surgical robots, where precision and latency are critical. Finally, I will touch upon my work in developing safe and sample-efficient reinforcement learning, ensuring that data-driven policies remain robust and feasible for deployment on resource-constrained embedded platforms.

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