Omar is a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University ECE advised by Prof. Sebastian Scherer, 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 and semantic scene representations to empower field robots.
Before joining the PhD program, Omar received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from KAU in 2020, ranking 1st amongst his engineering cohort and 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.
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oalama@andrew.cmu.edu