Doctoral Researcher, Lamarr Institute
12.2025 - Present | Bonn, Germany
PhD Candidate and Researcher Assistant @ Uni-Bonn & Lamarr Institute.
Area of Research - Spatial/Physical AI, Robotics Learning, Open World Understanding.
Robotics Engineer @ Sereact.
Developed foundation models for 9 DoF 3D bounding box estimation.
Entrepreneur in Residence, Antler
03.2025 - 06.2025 | Munich, Germany
Entrepreneur in Residence @ ANTLER Spring 2025 Cohort.
Building a 3D Gen AI startup for video game development.
Research Intern, Huawei
04.2023 - 05.2024 | Munich, Germany
Robotics Research (Internship + MSc Thesis) @ Huawei Munich Research Center.
Open World 3D Scene Understanding utilizing foundation models and LLM (IEEE ICRA'25).
LiDAR SLAM (Life-Long Localization & Mapping).
Student Research Assistant (HiWi) @ Chair of Computational Modeling & Simulation.
Optical process control for additive manufacturing in construction (ISARC'23).
Development of a 3D mapping system based on a quadruped robot.
Research Engineer, NUST
07.2020 - 10.2021 | Karachi, Pakistan
Research Engineer @ National University of Sciences and Technology (PNEC-NUST).
Developed autonomous aerial robots — VTOL (vertical-take-off-and-landing) and fixed-wing.
Contributed across all phases of development: design, control, simulation, and manufacturing.
Student Research Assistant @ NED University of Engineering & Technology.
Numerical modeling and simulation of nanofluids, turbulence, and heat transfer.
Co-authored two peer-reviewed journal papers based on research.