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Basics

Name Ayesh Abu Lehyeh
Label PhD Researcher | Computer Vision & Machine Learning
Email ayesh.abulehyeh@uvm.edu
Phone (802) 829-1976
Url https://AyeshAbuLehyeh.github.io/
Summary PhD researcher at the University of Vermont specializing in computer vision and machine learning for geolocalization. My work focuses on fine-grained and reliable geolocalization from visual and sensor data, emphasizing uncertainty-aware modeling, cross-view reasoning, and robustness under real-world constraints.

Work

  • 2023.09 - Present
    Graduate Research Assistant (PhD Researcher)
    University of Vermont
    Doctoral research in computer vision–based geolocalization, spanning sensor networks, indoor positioning, and large-scale visual geolocalization from images.
    • Research theme: geolocalization using visual and sensor data with an emphasis on robustness, uncertainty modeling, and deployability

    • GPS-free outdoor sensor network geolocalization: designed a spatio-temporal learning framework using Graph Neural Networks and BiLSTMs to localize large-scale IoT sensor networks from noisy radio range measurements; achieved meter-level accuracy and published the results in a peer-reviewed IoT journal — Paper

    • Reliable indoor geolocalization: developed a GNN-based regression model for indoor positioning and integrated conformal prediction to produce statistically valid confidence regions with calibrated uncertainty guarantees; demonstrated empirical coverage closely matching target confidence levels — Project

    • Visual geolocalization under severe appearance changes: studied robustness under weather, illumination, and seasonal shifts; extended the Sample4Geo baseline with improved training strategies and robustness-oriented evaluation — Code

    • Efficient fine-grained cross-view geolocalization: designed an efficient framework aligning ground-level and satellite imagery by decoupling heavy visual encoding from fast geometric refinement; achieved sub-meter accuracy with significantly reduced inference cost; currently under review at a top-tier computer vision venue — Project

    • Ongoing research on vision-language models for geolocalization: exploring semantic and spatial reasoning using VLMs, including prompt engineering and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA).

    • All research implemented primarily in PyTorch and PyTorch Geometric, with extensive experimentation, ablation studies, and reproducibility practices

  • 2021.10 - 2023.08
    Senior Data Analyst
    Orange Jordan
    Data-driven performance analysis and automation for large-scale telecom services.
    • Led nationwide service performance analysis using large-scale operational telecom datasets

    • Designed and deployed automated analytics pipelines using Python, SQL, Pandas, and NumPy to analyze service KPIs

    • Managed and analyzed data generated by software-based service testing robots to detect performance degradation

    • Developed automated Python-based alerting systems to trigger alarms when KPIs deviated from defined thresholds

    • Built real-time monitoring and executive dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, and Grafana

    • Led agile automation initiatives that reduced repetitive manual reporting and improved operational efficiency

    • Collaborated closely with engineering and operations teams to enable data-driven service optimization

  • 2019.05 - 2021.10
    Radio Frequency Engineer
    Orange Jordan
    Radio network planning, optimization, and performance analysis for cellular systems.
    • Worked on planning and optimization of large-scale 4G and 5G radio access networks

    • Analyzed RF measurements, drive-test data, and network KPIs to identify coverage, capacity, and interference issues

    • Supported radio network optimization using industry-standard RF planning and monitoring tools

    • Developed strong intuition for wireless propagation, noisy measurements, and real-world system constraints

Skills

Core Research Expertise
Geolocalization
Cross-View Image Matching
Fine-Grained Image Geolocalization
Uncertainty-Aware Learning
Geospatial Reasoning and Understanding
Machine Learning & Computer Vision
Deep Learning (CNNs, RNNs, Transformers)
Representation Learning
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
Sequence Models (GRU, BiLSTM)
Conformal Prediction
Tools & Frameworks
Python
C++
MATLAB
PyTorch
PyTorch Geometric
NumPy
Pandas
Scikit-learn
Linux
Data & Visualization
SQL
Python
Power BI
Tableau
Grafana
Matplotlib

Education

  • 2023.09 - Present

    Burlington, Vermont, USA

    PhD
    University of Vermont
    Computer Science

    PhD researcher specializing in computer vision and geolocalization, with a focus on uncertainty-aware learning and cross-view visual reasoning.

    • Research focus: visual geolocalization, cross-view image understanding, uncertainty modeling

    • Graduate coursework: Advanced Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Data Mining, Data Science, Advanced Algorithm Design

  • 2014.09 - 2019.02

    Amman, Jordan

    BSc
    University of Jordan
    Electrical Engineering

    Strong foundation in signal processing, wireless communications, and applied mathematics, with early exposure to distributed systems and algorithm design.

    • Coursework: Signals & Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Probability & Statistics

    • Graduated with honors

    • Graduation Project — Design of a Channel Management System for Cognitive Radio:

    • Designed a fully distributed channel management framework enabling cognitive users to dynamically access spectrum while satisfying heterogeneous QoS requirements

    • Developed novel channel allocation and coordination algorithms implemented in C++

    • Used MATLAB for system-level simulation, performance evaluation, and visualization of network behavior

Languages

Arabic
Native
English
Fluent

Interests

Computer Vision & Machine Learning
Visual Geolocalization
Cross-View Reasoning
Uncertainty Modeling
Vision-Language Models
Generative Models

References

Professor Safwan Wshah
Advisor — safwan.wshah@uvm.edu
Professor Anastassia Gharib
agharib@aus.edu