hello

I am Omar Rayyan, a senior at NYU majoring in EE and CS. I do research on robot learning, with a focus on imitation learning and physics simulators.

I am currently advised by Mahi Shafiullah and Prof. Animesh Garg Previously, I interned at Google's Space Control team.

Updates:

Aug 2024: Joined Georgia Tech's PAIR lab as a student researcher.
Aug 2024: Open-sourced mujoco_ar for quick robot teleop.
May 2024: Won comma.ai's controls challenge with an RL solution.
Apr 2024: Received NYU's Alfred H. Bloom Scholarship.

Select Publications and Software:

MuJoCo AR

Quick Phone Robot Teleoperation on Simulation and Real Robots

Github Repository

Open-Vocab Beyond Pick and Place

With guidance from Mahi Shafiullah

Github Repository

RCM-Constrained Manipulator Trajectory Tracking Using Differential Kinematics Control

Omar Rayyan*, Vinicius Goncalves, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Anthony Tzes

International Conference on Advanced Robotic (ICAR) 2023

ArXiv, Conference Video