🇱🇷 @Amazon Applied Scientist | Human Robot Interaction PhD @BrownUniversity | LUMS'18 | Traveller at Heart
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2016
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🎓🚀 Thrilled to announce defending my PhD in Long-term Autonomy in Socially Assistive Robots! It's been an incredible journey of late nights, 'aha' moments, and learning. Grateful for the immense support from @StefanieTellex @BrownBigAI, mentors, and family! Will miss Brown!!
🎉 Let's celebrate @IfrahIdrees' incredible achievement defending her PhD on "Long-term Autonomy in Socially Assistive Robots"! 👩🎓Congratulations, Dr. Idrees. Your dedication and efforts have truly paid off! The lab will miss you.🌟 @StefanieTellex @BrownCSDept @BrownUniversity
2/3 1. Keep your intro focused on the role.
2. @amazon Structure examples with STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result.
3. Explain your contribution. “We improved grasp success” leaves out your part. Did you diagnose failures, change training data, or redesign the evaluation?
4. Prepare for the follow-up: Why that approach? What alternatives did you consider? What would you change?
If you’ve made it to interviews, congratulations!
What should I cover next: introductions, STAR examples, or technical project discussions?
🤖 Amazon Robotics opportunities in Seattle — Part 1/2
• Senior Applied Scientist, Manipulation RL
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10514036…
• Applied Scientist, Simulation and Large-Scale RL
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10499150…
Interested in either role? DM or Feel free to reply with questions.
⏰ HRI 2027 workshop & tutorial proposals are due TODAY, Oct 5, at 11:59 PM AoE!
As Workshops & Tutorials Co-Chair, I welcome your proposals! 🤖
humanrobotinteraction.org/20…
#HRI2027
@humanrobotintera
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Three years away from posting here! I’ve been working on consumer and warehouse robots at @amazon.
My team is hiring for reinforcement learning and contact-rich manipulation. 🤖
First opening below. Follow for more AI and robotics opportunities and insights.
Interested in training robot policies in simulation and transferring them to real hardware?
We’re hiring an Applied Scientist, Simulation and Large-Scale RL, in Seattle.
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10499150…
Questions? Reply or DM me! #RobotLearning
Another role — Want to help robots learn to handle packages in real warehouses? 🤖
We’re hiring a Senior Applied Scientist focused on manipulation and reinforcement learning.
amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10514036…
My kind of work trip comes with robot dogs. 🤖
And humanoids. And a Baymax lookalike.
A glimpse of #IROS2026 👇
Here too? Visit Amazon Booth 1127 for Vulcan + Fauna demos. Come talk robots!
We’re hiring. Open roles in my previous posts.
@amazon @IEEEorg @WomenInRobotics
1,933 papers. Where do you start? 🤖
@GlenBerseth has narrowed #IROS2026 down to 130 papers on robot learning, VLAs, RL, imitation learning, and world models, with session times and rooms.
A useful starting point for planning what to see and read!
#IROS2026 has 1,933 papers. I filtered them down to 3 reading lists totalling 130 papers on robot learning, VLAs, RL fine-tuning of robot policies, imitation learning, and world models, with session times, rooms, and related workshops. Happy reading! fracturedplane.com/blog/2026…
Pittsburgh, come meet the robots! 🤖
Curious about robotics? #IROS26 is offering free guided tours of the exhibits and competitions—a great chance to see robots up close and meet the people building them.
Grab a ticket through Ken’s post below! 👇
If you're in Pittsburgh and would like to see the latest in commercial robots, the #IROS26 conference is offering guided tours of the exhibit area and competitions on Mon, Tues, and Wed at 2pm. Reserve free tickets here:
eventbrite.com/e/iros-2026-p…
Leslie Kaelbling on why Astra is so good at robotics, and why robotics still isn’t solved. 🤖
For me, the real test is what happens when things stop going to plan. Does the robot recognize its limits and know when to ask for help?
#IROS2026
Leslie Kaelbling on why Astra is so good at robotics and why robotics still isn’t solved “yet”.
I spoke at Leslie’s lab pre-Astra, and we chatted about many of these ideas. Pretty cool to see them coming into the mainstream. #IROS2026
Heading to #IROS2026! Excited to catch up with colleagues and meet new people. 🤖
My team at Amazon Robotics is hiring for RL and contact-rich manipulation. Role links are in my previous post on my profile.
Attending? DM me and let’s grab coffee!
It was definitely time for a profile picture update featuring some cool robots, a graduation moment, and a little bit of my PhD advisor @StefanieTellex! @amazon needs to give me a proper headshot photo. 🚀
Remember to find @jasonxyliu at ICRA and discuss his insights!
How can robots reuse learned policies to solve novel tasks without retraining?
In our #ICRA2024 paper, we leverage the compositionality of task specification to transfer skills learned from a set of training tasks to solve novel tasks zero-shot
It is so cool to see our collaboration get recognition at ICRA 2024! One of the snapshot from our robot demo is in the poster! Shreyas @_ericrosen @davidpaulius @VanyaCohen
‘CAPE: Corrective Actions from Preconditions Errors using Large Language Models’
arxiv.org/abs/2211.09935
THIS IS SO EXCITING! Congratulations! Highly well-deserved! @MatthewGombolay
I won the NSF CAREER award!!! I’ll be honest, this was my 3rd and final try: it was a journey. I couldn’t have succeeded w/o my amazing students in the @core_robotics lab, the mentorship of Prof Sonia Chernova, @mark_riedl, & the community in @GTrobotics + @gtcomputing. 🙏
