I am an Assistant Professor in CIISE and co-affiliated with CSSE in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, where I direct the PaInt Lab. I am also an Affiliate Member at Mila, and an Adjunct Professor in SYDE at the University of Waterloo. My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and human-robot Interaction (HRI) and focus on interactive/human-in-the-loop learning. My research goal is to enable long-term personalization for autonomous robots in real-world environments. I develop continual/lifelong learning techniques that can allow robots to interact with and learn from their users and then use the learned knowledge to assist users over the long term. These techniques are backed by rigorous testing in simulation and physical testing on robotic platforms with human users.

I graduated with a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Penn State with Alan Wagner. Afterwards, I was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo with Kerstin Dautenhahn and Chrystopher Nehaniv and also worked at Thales, Canada. Before my graduate studies, I obtained my BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore.

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