Omar is starting his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University ECE in Fall 2024 advised by Prof. Sebastian Scherer and working in the Airlab at the CMU Robotics Institute. His research interests revolve around classical and modern deep-learning based computer vision to build generalizable and efficient perception systems.
Before joining the PhD program, Omar received his B.S in Computer Engineering from KAU in 2020 ranking 1st amongst his engineering chort securing a scholarship to pursue graduate studies. He then worked as a research software engineer at KAUST accelerating distributed deep learning before joining CMU ECE for his M.S in 2022. His M.S focused on classical signal processing and statistical based vision as well as modern deep learning methods while working in the biometrics artificial intelligence lab under Prof. Marios Savvides.
oalama@andrew.cmu.edu