Scholar
Alaa Maalouf
Google Scholar ID: 6r72e-MAAAAJ
CSAIL, MIT
Citations & Impact
Citations
937
H-index
15
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
59
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2024: 'Drive Anywhere' accepted to ICRA 2024
- 2024: 'FollowAnything' accepted to RA-L
- 2023: 'On the Size and Approximation Error of Distilled Sets' accepted to NeurIPS 2023
- 2023: Two papers accepted to ICML 2023: 'AutoCoreset' and 'Provable Data Subset Selection For Efficient Neural Network Training'
- 2023: 'ConceptFusion: Open-set Multimodal 3D Mapping' accepted to RSS 2023
- 2023: One paper and one workshop paper accepted to ICRA 2023
- 'FollowAnything' preprint named Publication of the Week by Weekly Robotics (Aug 2023)
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of Haifa (Mar 2025 – Present)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT CSAIL (Jan 2023 – Mar 2025), working with Prof. Daniela Rus
- Postdoc Associate, Harvard (Mar 2023 – Mar 2025)
- ML Researcher then ML Principal Investigator, Project CETI (Feb 2023 – Present)
- Lead ML Researcher, DataHeroes (Aug 2022 – Jan 2023)
- Chip Design Engineer, Mellanox (NVIDIA) (Mar 2015 – Nov 2019)
- Advisor, Robotics and Big Data Lab, University of Haifa (2018–2021)
Background
- Neubauer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Haifa
- Research Affiliate at MIT CSAIL and Associate at Harvard SEAS
- Research spans machine learning, robotics, and AI-driven scientific discovery
- Focuses on making machine learning more efficient and accessible
- Develops intelligent robots capable of human-like reasoning, interaction, and decision-making
- Principal Investigator at Project CETI, working on decoding and translating sperm whale communication
