Ahmed H. Qureshi

Assistant Professor

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

About

Experience

  • Assistant Professor at Purdue University
    Aug 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

    We perform research at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to build general-purpose autonomous robotic systems for practical, real-world environments.

  • Graduate Student Researcher at UC San Diego
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    Worked on various research projects to develop: - Computationally-effcient learning-based motion planning methods. - Transferable Reinforcement Learning algorithms. - Robot navigation and manipulation for automation and surgery.

  • Research Intern at NVIDIA
    Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 · 7 mos

    Worked on a vision-based robot task planning research project.

  • Research Student at Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering
    Apr 2015 - Sep 2015 · 6 mos

    I contributed towards the following projects: 1- RGB-D based human activity recognition using the dual stream convolutional neural networks. 2- Facial expressions recognition through deep neural networks. 3- Collected RGB-D dataset of daily life human activities. 4- Treatment of Dyslexia patients with the help of HRI. learning.al human-robot interaction.

  • National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) (Robotics & Intelligence System Engineering - RISE Lab -SMME, Islamabad Pakistan)
    • Research Associate
      Jul 2014 - Mar 2015 · 9 mos

      1- Led the team solving navigation and planning problems of an autonomous wheelchair. 2- Team coordinator and co-supervisor of the teams qualified for RoboCup Standard Platform League in 2014 and 2015.

    • Research Assistant
      Aug 2012 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Worked on the following projects: 1- Person tracking by a mobile robot using 3D features. 2- Path planning of autonomous vehicles in environments with narrow passages. 3- Path planning of autonomous vehicles in time-varying environments. 4- Goal-directed sampling heuristics for sampling-based planning methods. 5- Solutions to the perceptual aliasing problem in map generation and localization. 5- Optimal collision avoidance method for autonomous vehicles operating in a joint space. 7- Constructed a sensor network system for implementation and testing of motion planning algorithms on Pioneer P3AT robot.