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I am Omar Rayyan, a senior at NYU Abu Dhabi majoring in EE and CS. My research interest is at the intersection of robotics and machine learning.

I am currently working with Mahi Shafiullah from NYU's GRAIL Lab and with Prof. Garg from Georgia Tech's PAIR Lab. Previously, I interned at Google's Space Control team in Munich.

Select Robot Demos:

Third-POV UMI (in-progress)

Open-Vocabulary beyond pick-place (TBR)

Diffusion Policy with custom UMI motor

Open-sourced mujoco_ar for phone teleop

RCM Constraint Algorithmically Held (paper)

AnyGrasp + LangSAM + ConceptGraph

Updates:

[Aug 2024]: Joined Georgia Tech's PAIR Lab as a student researcher.
[Aug 2024]: Open-sourced mujoco_ar, a MuJoCo plugin that uses ARKit for robotics phone teleoperation.
[May 2024]: Won comma.ai's controls challenge for the most interesting RL solution.
[Apr 2024]: Awarded Alfred H. Bloom Scholarship by NYU Abu Dhabi.
[Jan 2024]: Started doing research at NYU Courants CILVR's lab.
[Dec 2023]: First-author paper accepted to ICAR '23.
[July 2023]: Started a summer SWE intership at Google's Munich office in the Space Control team.