Email Scholar Github
Abdullah Altawaitan
Ph.D. Candidate at UC San Diego
Robotics | Machine Learning | Control

About

I'm currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California San Diego. I'm working under the guidance of Prof. Nikolay Atanasov at the Existential Robotics Laboratory. Before embarking on my Ph.D. journey, I worked at Honeywell as a project engineer. I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in 2017 and 2019, respectively.

News

Publications

Thumbnail

Learned IMU Bias Prediction for Invariant Visual Inertial Odometry

Abdullah Altawaitan, Jason Stanley, Sambaran Ghosal, Thai Duong, Nikolay Atanasov
arXiv Preprint, 2025.
Thumbnail

Variable-Frequency Model Learning and Predictive Control for Jumping Maneuvers on Legged Robots

Chuong Nguyen, Abdullah Altawaitan, Thai Duong, Nikolay Atanasov, Quan Nguyen
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025.
Thumbnail

Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups For Robot Dynamics Learning and Control

Thai Duong, Abdullah Altawaitan, Jason Stanley, Nikolay Atanasov
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2024.
🏆Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award
Thumbnail

Hamiltonian Dynamics Learning from Point Cloud Observations for Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Control

Abdullah Altawaitan, Jason Stanley, Sambaran Ghosal, Thai Duong, Nikolay Atanasov
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.