ahad jawaid

ceo at physical

areas of interest

  • -general purpose autonomous robots to create a space civilization (currently working on this)
  • -brain computer interfaces to solve the ui/ux problem of software
  • -biotech to solve all diseases (including aging)

experiences

lumid labs — founder

-created low cost robot arm with detachable gripper for tool use

-built on-device text to speech ios app with 1k users and an average engagement of 1hr

intelligent robotics and vision lab — research scientist

-built zero-shot robotic manipulation system from human video demonstrations

speech and machine learning lab — research scientist

-published first author paper at neurips audio imagination workshop on style generalization for style transfer with text-to-speech

-awarded jonsson school research award

system security lab — research assistant

-used graph neural networks to identify security anomalies in program interaction graphs

amazon web services — software engineer, bedrock team

-streamlined data access pipeline for sagemaker autopilot and automatic model tuning services used by millions of users

amazon alexa — software engineer, natural language understanding team

-built tool to reduce translation errors impacting 1m+ multilingual users and built an internal llm evaluation platform