Work / Bar-Ilan

Bar-Ilan University

Internship focused on robotics research, ROS workflows, and social-awareness behavior for autonomous systems.

Role and context

At Bar-Ilan University I worked as an AI and robotics intern with graduate research teams.

I learned ROS tooling hands-on and focused on how autonomous systems should behave around real people, not just around map coordinates.

Research focus: social awareness

A core problem was social path planning. A robot should not only find the shortest path; it should understand social cues in shared spaces.

For example, if two people are walking together with a gap between them, a naive planner might pass through. A socially-aware planner should recognize that relationship and route respectfully around it.

ROS-based experiments with wheeled ground robots
Behavior modeling that considers human context, not only geometry
Navigation logic designed to reduce friction in public spaces
Early foundation for later AR navigation and safety thinking

Why it mattered

This experience shaped how I think about spatial products: systems should react to human intent and social context, not just technical constraints.

That principle later carried directly into my AR interaction, navigation, and real-world UX work.