Taha Shaheen
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Mail code: 8809Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentComputer Science
Ira A Fulton Engineering
Ph.D. student in Computer Science investigating how a mismatch between a human's understanding of domain dynamics affects the quality of their feedback, and how this, in turn, impacts an agent's reward learning. My work bridges human behaviour, robotics, and adaptive human–AI collaboration, with prior research on preventing misuse of teleoperated robots and developing low-cost socially assistive systems.
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fUKrgx7Xl1HkHN3Q4lfdb1U6A69SFu3R/view
M.S. Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan (April 2023) | Received MEXT Research Scholarship by Japanese Government | Awarded Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award
B.E. Electronic Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan (November 2017) | Achieved rank 5 in batch of 148
- Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Taha Shaheen, Dražen Brščić, and Takayuki Kanda. 2024. Investigation of Low-Moral Actions by Malicious Anonymous Operators of Avatar Robots. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. 14, 1, Article 11 (March 2025), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3696466
Courses
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CSE 486 | Computer Sci Capstone Proj II |
| CSE 486 | Computer Sci Capstone Proj II |
Fall 2024: Graduate Teaching Associate for CSE 535 and CSE 543
Contributions to CSE 535 - Mobile Computing:
- Designed one out of the three major class projects. It focused on implementing minimax with alpha-beta pruning in a tic-tac-toe game that ran on devices with limited resources like mobile phones and smartwatches.
- Held weekly support sessions and office hours for students.
Contributions to CSE 543 - Information Assurance and Security:
- Delivered in-class lectures on ROS 1 and ROS 2 security features.
- Held weekly support sessions for students.
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024: Graduate Teaching Assistant for CSE 230
Contributions to CSE 230 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming under the guidance
- Delivered in-class lectures on cache size calculations, cache organization, hit and miss analysis, accessing algorithms, average memory access time calculations, and the design and operation of multilevel caches.
- Assisted two times a week in class with in-class challenges.
- Conducted online and offline office hours to provide individualized support to students.
- Graded midterms and final exams.
- Assisted with MIPS programming exercises on Zylab.
- Ensured academic integrity by utilizing Zybooks’ new similarity-checking system and generated summaries for reporting to the Office of Academic Integrity.
MEXT (文部科学省) Research Scholarship | Japanese government scholarship | April 2020 – August 2023
- Received full tuition and stipend.
- Selected on the recommendation of the Japanese Consulate General in Karachi after tests and an interview.
- One of only two people selected from Karachi in 2019.
Graduate Trainee Engineer, Instrumentation and Control | Fatima Fertilizer Company, Sadiqabad, Pakistan | Nov 2017 – Nov 2018
- Completed training in field instrumentation, Bently Nevada vibration monitoring system, anti-surge control, Gas Turbine Generator operation, Waste Gas Boiler operation, Yokogawa DCS (Distributed Control System) and ESD (Emergency Shutdown), PLCs, process safety management elements, documentation, and work procedures.
- Managed day-to-day maintenance jobs at Offsites & Utilities and Nitric Acid plants.