Visiting Student Researcher @ Stanford University

Imane Jennane

Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer

Visiting Student Researcher at Stanford University building vision-based localization for medical microrobots. MSc in Robotics at EPFL, specializing in perception.

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01 · About

Who I am

I build computer vision systems for robots: spacecraft pose estimation, drone tracking, and medical robots navigating human vasculature. Trained in Microengineering and Robotics at EPFL, I specialize in computer vision for robotics and AI.

At Stanford, I'm developing the vision pipeline that localizes and tracks a magnetic microrobot for stroke thrombectomy. Long term, I want to work on robots that operate safely alongside people.

Based in

Stanford, CA · Lausanne, Switzerland

Interests

RoboticsComputer VisionArtificial IntelligenceMedical RoboticsAutonomous SystemsMachine LearningSoftware Engineering

Languages

English (fluent)
French (native)
Arabic (native)

02 · Experience

Research & industry

May 2026 – PresentCURRENT

Stanford University

Visiting Student Researcher · Stanford Robotics Lab

Computer vision and robot navigation for thrombectomy in stroke cases, in collaboration with Prof. Oussama Khatib's Stanford Robotics Lab, Prof. Monroe Kennedy III's ARMLab and Prof. Renee Zhao's Soft Intelligent Materials Lab.

Medical RoboticsVision-Based LocalizationCamera CalibrationAprilTagsPose EstimationReal-Time TrackingMagnetic MillirobotsOpenCVPython

Oct 2025 – Apr 2026

Fotokite

Computer Vision Engineering Intern

Perception for tethered autonomous drones used by first responders.

Object DetectionObject TrackingDeep LearningYOLOOSTrackPyTorchEvaluation PipelinesPerformance Optimization

Feb 2025 – Jul 2025

EPFL Computer Vision Lab

Computer Vision Research Project

Robustness analysis of 6D pose estimation for spacecraft imagery.

6D Pose EstimationRobustnessFault InjectionPyTorchSpace Robotics

Aug 2024 – Jan 2025

LTS5 Lab, EPFL

Robotics Semester Project

Domain adaptation for medical ultrasound imaging.

Domain AdaptationU-NetMedical ImagingDeep LearningPyTorch

Jul 2023 – Sep 2023

GALATEA Lab

Microengineering Intern

Haptics and 3D sensing for laser manufacturing.

Haptics3D SensingPrecision Engineering

03 · Education

Academic path

2026 – Present

Stanford University

Visiting Student Researcher · Stanford Robotics Lab

Stanford, CA

Computer vision and robot navigation for thrombectomy in stroke cases.

2023 – 2026

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

MSc in Robotics · Specialization in Computer Vision

Lausanne, Switzerland

Image Analysis & Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Robotics.

2022 – 2023

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Exchange Year · Microengineering

Copenhagen, Denmark

Bachelor's exchange year.

2019 – 2023

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

BSc in Microtechnology

Lausanne, Switzerland

04 · Projects

Some featured work

3D Localization and Tracking of a Milli-Spinner for Endovascular Thrombectomy

FEATURED

Stanford Robotics Lab

3D Localization and Tracking of a Milli-Spinner for Endovascular Thrombectomy

A computer vision pipeline that localizes and tracks a magnetic milli-spinner in 3D inside a transparent vascular phantom: camera calibration, AprilTag-based registration, 2D-to-3D mapping onto a vessel centerline, and real-time tracking robust to refraction and dye-injected scenes. Built for vision-guided thrombectomy research.

OpenCVCamera CalibrationAprilTags3D ReconstructionReal-Time TrackingPython

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FEATURED

Fotokite

Real-Time Drone Object Tracking

An onboard detection-and-tracking pipeline for tethered drones, fusing YOLO-based detection with OSTrack single-object tracking. Engineered for motion blur, occlusion, and strict latency budgets, with full dataset-creation and evaluation tooling to measure real-world robustness.

YOLOOSTrackPyTorchEmbedded InferenceEvaluation Pipelines

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Robustness of 6D Spacecraft Pose Estimation

FEATURED

EPFL CV Lab

Robustness of 6D Spacecraft Pose Estimation

Fault-injection framework to stress-test 6D pose estimation models under sensor noise, occlusion, and degraded imagery, quantifying how perception fails in orbit before it fails in production.

6D Pose EstimationFault InjectionRobustness AnalysisPyTorch

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FEATURED

LTS5 Lab, EPFL

Ultrasound Domain Adaptation

U-Net-based CNN that enhances ultrasound image quality and generalizes across heterogeneous ultrasound domains, reducing the domain gap that breaks medical imaging models in the clinic.

U-NetDomain AdaptationMedical ImagingDeep Learning

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EPFL · Data Visualization (COM-480)

EuroBnB Insights

An interactive dashboard that visualizes Airbnb listings across ten major European cities: maps with district-level boundaries, price versus guest satisfaction, radar charts, treemaps, and city-to-city comparisons on standardized data.

Data VisualizationJavaScriptInteractive MapsGeoJSON

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EPFL · Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition

Coin Detection & Classification

A full pipeline that detects and classifies coins in photos across neutral, hand-held, and noisy backgrounds: classical segmentation (Canny edges, circle Hough transform, rolling-ball background subtraction), patch extraction, data augmentation, and a trained classifier.

Image SegmentationHough TransformCannyClassificationPython

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EPFL · Model Predictive Control

MPC Cruise Controller for a Car

A model predictive controller that drives a car on a highway: the nonlinear vehicle dynamics are linearized, split into longitudinal and lateral subsystems, and controlled with terminal invariant sets for recursive feasibility and a disturbance observer for offset-free tracking.

Model Predictive ControlOptimizationLinearizationState EstimationMATLAB

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EPFL · Neural Signal & Signal Processing

EMG Gesture Classification & Regression

A machine-learning pipeline that decodes hand movements from surface EMG: six time-domain features per channel, a Random Forest classifier reaching 95.83% accuracy, SHAP-based feature selection, a study of cross-subject generalization, and regression of continuous joint angles.

EMGRandom ForestFeature SelectionSHAPSignal Processing

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EPFL · Object-Oriented Programming (C++)

Planet Donut: Multi-Robot Swarm

A C++ swarm-robotics simulation where robots must stay wirelessly connected to their base while prospecting, foraging and transporting resources, with connectivity solved as a graph-traversal problem and a full graphical interface.

C++Object-Oriented DesignGraph Traversal (DFS)Multi-Agent SystemsGUI

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EPFL · Basics of Mobile Robotics

Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation

End-to-end autonomous navigation stack for a Thymio robot: vision-based global mapping, path planning, local obstacle avoidance, and Kalman-filter state estimation that survives kidnapping and camera occlusion.

Path PlanningKalman FilterVisionPython

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EPFL · CoBAR

Controlling Behavior in Simulated Animals

Behavioral controllers for a neuromechanical fly simulation (NeuroMechFly), combining sensory processing with locomotion control to produce robust, adaptive behavior in a physics simulation.

SimulationControlBio-Inspired RoboticsPython

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EPFL · Reinforcement Learning (EE-568)

Adaptive Posture Regulation with RL

A reinforcement-learning system that nudges tablet users toward healthier posture through subtle visual stimuli, modeled as a stochastic gridworld and solved with Double Q-Learning and Expected SARSA, with a fatigue term that makes simulated users drift over time.

Reinforcement LearningDouble Q-LearningExpected SARSAGymnasiumPython

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EPFL · Mechanism Design II

Balanced IsoSpring Oscillator

Design of a balanced IsoSpring mechanical oscillator for a portable clock: a flexure-guided oscillator with force and moment balancing, taken from kinematic concept to a full CAD model and documented in a 28-page report.

Mechanism DesignCompliant MechanismsFlexuresCADHorology

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EPFL · Mechanical Construction II

Manual Orange Press

Complete mechanical design of a manual orange press: mechanism concepts, dimensioning calculations, material choices, and a full CAD model with engineering drawings, documented in a 117-page report.

Mechanical DesignCADDimensioningPrototyping

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Tools

Programming

PythonC++MATLABJavaGit

Computer Vision

OpenCVCamera CalibrationImage ProcessingFeature DetectionPose EstimationObject Tracking

Machine Learning

PyTorchTensorFlowDeep LearningObject DetectionDomain Adaptation

Robotics

ROS2Sensor FusionState EstimationSLAMMotion Planning

Dev Environment

DockerLinuxCUDANVIDIA JetsonVS Code

06 · Achievements

Beyond the day job

Hackathon

QBI Hackathon: first prize

Won first prize at the Quantitative Biosciences Institute hackathon with EvoEmu.

QBI hackathon recap

Teaching

Teaching Assistant × 4 courses

TA for Algorithms & Computational Thinking (Java/Python), Physics, and Descriptive Geometry at EPFL and UNIL, explaining hard ideas simply, at scale.

Mentoring

Student Mentor, EPFL

Mentored incoming engineering students through the transition into one of Europe's most demanding programs.

Open Source

Robotics and ML coursework, simulations, and research code shared on GitHub, from mobile-robot navigation to reinforcement learning.

Engineering

Cross-Disciplinary Range

From microengineering hardware to deep learning research: haptics, 3D sensing, ultrasound imaging, spacecraft pose, drones, and medical robots.

07 · Contact

Get in touch.

I'm graduating with my MSc in Robotics and looking for full-time roles in robotics, computer vision, perception, and AI. If that sounds like your team, I'd love to talk.

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