01 // MECHANICAL ENGINEER · AERIAL ROBOTICS · CONTROL THEORY

JAMIL

Mechanical Engineer

I build machines
that mve with intent.

MECHANICS. CONTROL. AUTONOMY.

Make the model survive the real world.

I design mechanical systems and autonomy for robots that have to work beyond simulation. My work connects CAD, dynamics, control, perception and validation, with a focus on aerial robotics and safety-critical behaviour. I care about the point where a clean model meets real hardware and the system still has to behave predictably.

[ OPEN THE PROJECT WINDOWS ↓ ] CURRENTLY // BEIRUT · AUB AERIAL ROBOTICS LAB

STATUSBACK IN BEIRUT.

B.E. Mechanical Engineering at AUB · research across aerial robotics, safety-critical control, simulation and autonomy.

SYRIA / ROOTS

BEIRUT / LAB

ABU DHABI / HOME

02 // WHO I AM

ROOTED LOCALLY / ENGINEERED GLOBALLY

A lab notebook, flight log, and piece of home in the same system, engineering precision without stripping away the places that shaped it.

I like the point where MECHANICS becomes motion, where a controller runs out of excuses, and where simulation has to predict something useful before hardware proves it wrong.

My center of gravity is aerial robotics and control, but the same question keeps pulling me into ROS 2 autonomy, safety monitoring, perception and physics simulation: what does it take to make a system behave reliably when the world stops being clean?

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” George E. P. Box
A line Dr. James Richard Forbes engraved in my head.

AUB · B.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGExpected June 2027 · GPA 4.12/4.0 · Dean's Honor Award recipient

NYU ABU DHABI · CAIRResearch Assistant · safety-critical control, vision, MuJoCo and Isaac Sim

MCGILL ENGINEERING2025 to 2026 exchange · only AUB nominee selected for the program

IDEAS FAIRE1st Place · Aircraft Competition Winner

03 // SELECTED WORK

Open a
window.

Seven projects, seven different ways of making a system behave. The Lebanese window frames stay as the interface; inside them are the actual CAD views, simulations, flight hardware, plots and videos behind the work.

HOVER OVER THE WINDOWS.
CLICK TO OPEN THE ENGINEERING LOG.

04 // CORE VECTORS

What keeps
showing up.

01.

Mechanics for Flight

Tiltable rotors, VTOL aircraft, airframes and the geometry that decides what a flying machine can physically ask of its controller.

02.

Control & Safety

MPC, control barrier functions, system response and runtime signals that expose when a robot is approaching the edge of what it can safely recover from.

03.

Autonomy in Simulation

ROS 2, Gazebo, MuJoCo and Isaac Sim as engineering laboratories for mapping, navigation, perception, manipulation and failure recovery.

04.

Build → Tune → Validate

The code is rarely the end of the problem. CAD, costmaps, controller gains, geometry and test conditions all get iterated until the behavior becomes repeatable.

05 // CURRENT VECTOR

Back in
Beirut.

33.8938° N · 35.5018° E

AUB is where the mechanical side and the robotics side keep colliding in useful ways: mechanisms in CAD, UAVs in the lab, controllers in simulation, then another round of changes when reality disagrees.

CURRENT BASE

AUB Aerial Robotics Lab

Research Assistant since January 2025, working on tiltable-rotor mechanical systems and wildfire-suppression UAV research while completing Mechanical Engineering at AUB.

DEGREEB.E. Mechanical Engineering · expected Jun 2027

TOOLS I KEEP OPENSolidWorks · MATLAB · Python · ROS 2 · MuJoCo · Isaac Sim

بيروت

JAN 2025, NOWAUB Aerial Robotics LabTiltable-rotor quadrotor mechanics; wildfire-suppression UAV mechanical design, CAD, simulation and autonomy support.

JUN 2026, NOWNYU Abu Dhabi · CAIRSafety-critical robot control plus computer-vision pipelines for dexterous manipulation and body capture, validated in MuJoCo and Isaac Sim.

2025, 26McGill EngineeringFaculty of Engineering exchange; selected as AUB's only nominee. McGill Robotics VTOL UAV work.

2020, NOWTeaching / TutoringDynamics, Thermodynamics, Control Systems and Python for 50+ university students.

06 // ROOTS / ROUTES

Not decoration.
Coordinates.

The arches, linework, mosaic rhythm and stamps are part of the system because the portfolio should carry the places that shaped me with the same confidence as the engineering. Syrian roots, Lebanon and Beirut in the present, and Abu Dhabi as home are not a side note to the work.