I am a Sr. Research Manager at NVIDIA Research, leading the Data-Drive AI for Robotics (DAIR) team. The team investigates how robots can learn directly from human data, such as videos, motion capture, and large-scale demonstrations, to acquire skills that generalize across tasks, embodiments, and environments. We work at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning, and robotics, developing models that understand, reconstruct, and imitate human behaviors. I earned my PhD in Computer Science (2014-2018) from the University of Bonn, Germany, under the guidance of Prof. Juergen Gall. Prior to that, I completed my masters (2011-2013) in Finland and undergrad (2006-2010) in Pakistan. I developed my passion for computer vision and machine learning in 2009 during my undergrad thesis on vehicle make and model recognition and have been in love with the field ever since.

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