Karim El-Refai

I am an incoming EECS M.S. student at UC Berkeley advised by Professor Ken Goldberg. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor's in CS in May 2025.

I am interested in building perception systems for language-guided robot interaction and manipulation.

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Research

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Teaching

I have had the fortune to be a teaching assistant for the following courses:

EECS C106A: Introduction to Robotics in Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
EECS C106B: Robotic Manipulation and Interaction in Spring 2025, Spring 2024
DATA C88C: Computational Structures in Data Science in Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023

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I also like photography. Taken on Sony α7ii, Minolta X-700, and Canon EOS 60D.

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Website design borrows from Jon Barron and Brent Yi.