Al is an Adjunct Professor in Robotics at NYU and Director of Agile Safe Autonomous Systems (ASAS) Labs. His research is focused on advancement of autonomous robotic vehicles for urban applications, from secure communication to safe operations. His received his Bachelor in Robotics Engineering and his Masters in Electrical Engineering (Control Systems) from Shahrood University of Technology and his Doctorate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Control Systems) from Rutgers University were he was focused on the development of advanced motion planning and control for robotic vehicles capable of autonomous racing and stunt driving.

He also leads a R&D project focused on integrating Large Language Models (LLM) with existing standard safety and security assessment models. His has gained over 8 years of industrial experience in small size startups to prestigious research labs from the East to the West of the continent. He has worked as individual contributor to principal and lead staff from small size to large size teams in Cloud, Telecommunication and Automotive industries. Dr. Arab is familiar with cloud, embedded system and communication architectures which are necessary components of a current days software defined robotic vehicles.