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Ali Tourani Paper ICRA-W'26
10 May 2026

📝 Paper ICRA-W'26

Excited to share that we have two papers accepted at the Robots Meet Prior Maps workshop of ICRA'26 conference in Vienna, Austria!

Links: Pre-print#1, Pre-print#2

Ali Tourani Paper IEEE RA-L
15 April 2026

📝 Paper IEEE RA-L

Proud to share that our vS-Graphs paper has been accepted for publication in the prestigious IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!

Links: Pre-print

Ali Tourani Paper IEEE RA-M
05 April 2026

📝 Paper IEEE RA-M

Happy to share that our iMarkers paper has been accepted in the prestigious IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM)!

Links: Pre-print, Post

Ali Tourani Postdoc SnT University of Luxembourg
01 April 2026

🎓 Postdoc Experience

Excited to share that I have started a new role as a Postdoctoral Researcher and R&D Specialist at SnT, University of Luxembourg!

Links: Automation & Robotics Group

Ali Tourani Google Scholar
20 March 2026

🏆 PhD Defense

Proud to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis and got nominated for the Excellent Thesis Award at UniLu.

Links: Thesis, Slides , Post

Ali Tourani ACM TORS
01 March 2026

📝 Paper ACM TORS

Excited to share that our paper on Visual RAG got accepted in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS)!

Links: Pre-print

Ali Tourani IEEE RA-L
06 January 2026

📝 Paper IEEE RA-L

Proud to share that our paper has been accepted for publication in the prestigious journal of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani JINT
03 January 2026

📝 Paper JINT

Excited to share that our paper introducing the SMapper device has been published in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani IEEE Access
22 November 2025

📝 Paper IEEE Access

Happy to share that our paper on LLM-based Robot Control has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Access journal!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani Medium Article
06 April 2025

🖋️ Article on Medium

Check out my new personal article, Boost Your Research Visibility: Preprints Before Submissions, now live! Read it on Medium.

Links: Article

Ali Tourani IROS'24
07 October 2024

📝 Paper IROS'24

Happy to share that our paper has been accepted in 14th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles in IROS'24!

Links: PDF , Pre-print

Ali Tourani MDPI Robotics
16 July 2024

📝 Paper MDPI Robotics

Excited to share that our paper on marker-based Visual SLAM has been accepted for publication in the MDPI Robotics journal!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani Editor's Choice MDPI Sensors
05 July 2024

🏆 Editor's Choice Paper

Thrilled to share that our paper with 100+ citations has been selected as an Editor's Choice Article in MDPI Sensors journal!

Links: Announcement , DOI

Ali Tourani Image and Vision Computing
11 June 2024

📝 Paper Elsevier IVC

Delighted to announce that our survey paper on pedestrian detection has been accepted in Elsevier's Image and Vision Computing journal!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani ICUAS'24
04 April 2024

📝 Paper ICUAS'24

Happy to share that our paper has been accepted for presentation in the ICUAS'24 conference! See you in Chania, Greece!

Links: DOI , Pre-print

Ali Tourani ICRA'24
01 April 2024

📝 Paper ICRA'24

Excited to announce that we will present our Late Breaking Results on the ongoing vS-Graphs project at the ICRA'24 conference!

Links: Poster

Ali Tourani Google Scholar
09 October 2023

💯 Academic Milestone!

Happy to say that my author-level metric (h-index) reached level 10 with 250+ citations on my Google Scholar profile, reflecting my works' impact.

Links: GoogleScholar

Ali Tourani IROS'23
24 July 2023

📝 Paper IROS'23

Proud to annouce that our paper has been accepted in the IROS'23 Conference, a highly prestigious event in robotics.

Links: DOI, Pre-print

Ali Tourani ICRA'23
02 June 2023

📝 Paper ICRA'23 Workshop

Happy to annouce that our paper has been accepted in the workshop of Active Methods in Autonomous Navigation in ICRA'23, London.

Links: PDF

Ali Tourani MDPI Sensors
15 May 2023

📝 Paper MDPI Sensors

Check out our recent survey on the concept of Situational Awareness, which got accepted in the Sensors journal.

Links: DOI

Ali Tourani MDPI Sensors
29 November 2022

📝 Paper MDPI Sensors

Excited to share the acceptance of my first survey manuscript in the Sensors journal, where we explore the trends and directions of Visual SLAM.

Links: DOI

Ali Tourani LSA Nature
14 October 2022

📝 Paper LSA Nature

Proud to announce that our paper has been accepted in Light: Science & Applications as part of an exciting interdisciplinary project.

Links: DOI, TechXplore

Ali Tourani EASA Drone Pilot Certification
29 September 2022

✈️ Drone Pilot Certification

Happy to share that I have earned my Open Category UAS Pilot Certificate (A1/A3) from the Luxembourg Direction de l'Aviation Civile!

Links: Website

Ali Tourani Recsys'22
30 July 2022

📝 Paper RecSys'22

Thrilled to announce that our paper has been accepted to @ACMRecSys'22, a top-tier conference in the field of Recommender Systems.

Links: DOI , Pre-print , Website

Ali Tourani Google Scholar
23 July 2022

💯 Academic Milestone!

Excited to share that my publications have reached 100 citations on Google Scholar! So grateful to my collaborators and mentors for their support.

Links: GoogleScholar

Ali Tourani SnT
1 April 2022

🎓 PhD Journey Started!

Thrilled to announce the start of my journey as a Doctoral Researcher with the Automation and Robotics Group of SnT, University of Luxembourg!

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