Marwan Abu Lebdeh

Computer Science & research

Marwan Abu Lebdeh

I'm a PhD student at Penn State doing CPU and OS research with Dr. Ruslan Nikolaev. I previously did HCI and sensing research in my bachelor's with Dr. Cesar Torres.

Research

My previous research involved sensing and modeling heterogeneous fluid systems to estimate various material properties by combining sensing pipelines, statistical models, and embedded systems. Below you can find a poster presenting my undergraduate thesis, RheoCognition.

RheoCognition undergraduate thesis poster

Teaching Assistant

  • ElectronicsUT Arlington's CSE 3323 - Spring 2025

Selected projects

  • I2C logic analyzer capture
    I2C Communication on Zynq SoC

    A custom I2C communication protocol for the AMD Zynq XC7007S, including a Linux kernel driver.

  • Printed antenna for the Digital RF Station
    Digital RF Station

    A wireless communications project spanning circuit design, embedded programming, antennas, and signal processing.

  • Edge-detection output from the image-processing tool
    Image Processing Tool

    An image-processing application for Gaussian blur, sharpening, unsharp masking, and edge detection.

  • Memory-fragmentation diagram for CustomAlloc
    CustomAlloc

    An implementation of malloc, calloc, realloc, and free in C.

  • 3D hand-pose estimate
    Hand Pose Estimation

    A 3D hand-pose recognition system built from hand-joint coordinate data.

Honors & involvement

  • CRA UR2PhD Research Program · Summer 2025
  • Tau Beta Pi · Inducted Spring 2025
  • UTA Honors College · Inducted Spring 2024
  • Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers · Fall 2024
  • UTA Dean's List · Fall 2023—Fall 2025