I build and validate learned controllers for humanoid robots in simulation.
Currently writing my M.Sc. thesis with Fraunhofer IEM on Digital Twin-supported reinforcement learning for a humanoid robot: URDF/USD asset pipeline, PPO training in Isaac Lab, and sim-to-real transfer. Alongside that I work as an AI Solutions Consultant at Siemens Mobility, benchmarking and prototyping LLM systems for enterprise use.
Most of my public work is about a question I find more interesting than "can it walk": how does a learned controller behave when the model, the contact parameters, or the training objective change, and how do you measure that reproducibly?
| Project | What it is | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Humanoid Simulation Robustness Benchmark | Trained and froze a Unitree H1 PPO locomotion policy, then built an independent benchmark around it: friction, mass, and actuator-effort perturbations across 5 seeds. 95 runs, 9,500 episodes, 44 tests, CI. Includes a custom mechanical-power reward and a matched A/B study: 43.9% power reduction at unchanged survival, but worse robustness under friction and mass mismatch. | Isaac Lab · RSL-RL · PPO · PyTorch · pytest · GH Actions |
| MuJoCo Contact & Actuator Playground | A 2-link leg written from raw MJCF, used to work through contact solver tuning (solref), position vs. velocity vs. torque actuators, and sensor logging. Written up as findings, including the ones that turned out to be modelling mistakes. |
MuJoCo · MJCF · Python |
| Scholar Multimodal RAG | Retrieval pipeline over scientific papers: hybrid dense/sparse retrieval, table-aware PDF ingestion, cross-encoder reranking, RAGAS evaluation. | Weaviate · LangChain · FastAPI · Docker |
Simulation & RL
ML / DL
Engineering
LLM Systems
M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 2023-2026
B.Sc. Software Engineering, SSUET Karachi
Before robotics: three years of production ML. Computer vision and NLP models at Hackerspace Karachi, LLM-powered customer support at Daraz (Alibaba Group), and an AI/IoT waste-segregation startup that won the National Idea Bank 2022.
Side project: I built an AI twin you can ask about my work. Gemini, Vercel, GitHub Pages.
Open to robotics and RL engineering roles in Germany and Europe. Happy to talk about locomotion, evaluation methodology, or anything sim-to-real.