Summary
Assem Sadek is a senior machine learning engineer with a decade of experience designing perception systems, 3D geometry pipelines, and embodied AI for robotics and AR/VR. His PhD work at INSA Lyon and NAVER Labs Europe advanced visual navigation for mobile robots, grounding deep learning in 3D geometry to bridge the sim-to-real gap on real robotic platforms. He currently leads ML for perception at Qualcomm, translating research-grade models into deployed, real-time perception components for immersive environments. His research interests include Vision-Language-Action models, reinforcement learning for embodied agents, and scalable perception systems that generalize across tasks, environments, and modalities. Based in Grenoble, France, his career spans Automatika Robotics and NAVER Labs Europe, reflecting a strong blend of academic rigor and hands-on industry delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
High School, High School at College De La Salle - Daher
College Des Freres - Bab El Louk
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Cairo University
Arabic, French, English, Spanish, German