{"id":986,"date":"2015-11-26T09:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T09:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=986"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:19:11","slug":"faculty-member-taught-robots-soccer-successfully-defends-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/faculty-member-taught-robots-soccer-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Member Who \u2018Taught\u2019 Robots Soccer Successfully Defends PhD Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/SSE\/syeda-saleha\/\">Dr. Saleha<\/a> had investigated the problem of getting a team of autonomous robots to collaborate in a complex dynamic environment<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HABIB UNIVERSITY: <\/strong>Habib University\u2019s Assistant Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/academics\/sse\/bs-computer-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science<\/a> Ms. Syeda Saleha Raza will be swapping her title with \u201cDr.\u201d after successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis on November 10, 2015 at a ceremony held in the Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) Board Room at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) City Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Her dissertation, titled \u201c<em>TEAM LEARNING FROM DEMONSTRATION: A Framework to Build Collaboration in a Team of Agents via Imitation<\/em>\u201d, examined the effectiveness of imitation learning in helping multiple autonomous agents collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/SSE\/syeda-saleha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Saleha Raza<\/a> simulated a team of robots and taught them how to play soccer through imitation. She \u201ctaught\u201d the robots soccer via demonstrations through keyboard to guide each robot during virtual soccer matches. By archiving all the moves made during those games in a database, she was able to help robots \u201clearn\u201d and use the best collaborative moves they could make in any given situation. All the robots were autonomous agents who had to take decisions independently given the scenario they were in.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Saleha, as a part of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at IBA, has already been actively involved in developing a team of simulated soccer robots \u2013 called Karachi Koalas \u2013 which was the first Pakistani team to participate in World RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D league since 2011 and was ranked in top 5 in RoboCup 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Saleha\u2019s research has wide applications in multi-robot environments like search and rescue and automated logistics; in computer games to train intelligent computer players; and even in \u201csmart\u201d traffic signals that can direct the flow of traffic to minimize traffic jams.<\/p>\n<p>We congratulate <a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/SSE\/syeda-saleha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Saleha Raza<\/a> on the completion of her PhD, and look forward to the valuable knowledge she brings to Habib University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Saleha had investigated the problem of getting a team of autonomous robots to collaborate in a complex dynamic environment HABIB UNIVERSITY: Habib University\u2019s Assistant Professor of Computer Science Ms. Syeda Saleha Raza will be swapping her title with \u201cDr.\u201d after successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis on November 10, 2015 at a ceremony held in<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/faculty-member-taught-robots-soccer-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comp-sci","8":"category-faculty"},"acf":{"home_page_thumbnail":"","category_select":"","name_overwrite":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HU Faculty Member Defends PhD on Robo-Soccer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Saleha Raza earns her PhD with research on robot teamwork via imitation learning, paving the way for smart AI in robotics, games, and logistics.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/faculty-member-taught-robots-soccer-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HU Faculty Member Defends PhD on Robo-Soccer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Saleha Raza earns her PhD with research on robot teamwork via imitation learning, paving the way for smart AI in robotics, games, and logistics.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/faculty-member-taught-robots-soccer-successfully-defends-phd-thesis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Habib University | News &amp; 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