Muhammad Ali Murtaza

Assistant Professor

PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

  • alimurtaza@itu.edu.pk

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Autonomy and robotics, with a particular emphasis on humanoid robots and robotic manipulators. He investigates their applications in dynamic environments involving human-robot interaction, multi-robot collaboration, and other multi-agent systems. The core theme of his work is safety specifically how to formally enforce safety constraints across the entire robotics stack—from high-level task and motion planning down to trajectory optimization and real-time control on physical hardware.

Biography

Dr. M. Ali Murtaza obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. He did his postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously he worked at KUKA Robotics and at a healthcare robotics startup.