Hi, I’m Ammar Husain 👋

                         

  • Technologist:  
    AI/ML, robotics, blockchains
  • Avid Reader:   
    My literature notes 📚
  • Fitness:         
    Triathlete; my workout tracker 📆
  • Productivity
    I am a GTD enthusiast and my second brain is built using Todoist + Obsidian + Raindrop.io. My personal mobility device is an Inmotion-V8
  • Outdoors:      
    I enjoy backpacking, camping, hiking and am a certified scuba diver
  • Angel Investor
  • Random Tinkering:
    Chatbot - trained on my Google chat history,
    Notes - I like to work with the garage door open,
    Notes Search & QA - powered by GPT-4 + Pinecone
    Chrome-Extension - renders fun motivational & inspiring images from Unsplash when opening a new tab,
    Eng-Level predictor - if you are at Google you'll get a kick out of this during Perf,
    Mobipulator

Background

2019 - present
Google X
senior software engineer @ EVERYDAY ROBOTS
  • Build, design & lead perception for robot navigation
  • Define product strategy for leveraging autonomous capabilities and human supervision
2017 - 2018
Marble
perception lead, founding engineer
  • Lead the design and development of the robot's perception system
  • Guide software architecture and framework for the robot
2015 - 2017
Apple
senior software engineer @ autonomous systems
  • Systems engineering and architecture
  • Develop libraries for computational geometry, computer vision, machine learning etc.
2013 - 2015
National Robotics and Engineering Center
SENIOR software engineer
  • Develop computer vision & machine learning algorithms
  • Implement various components of robot software framework
2006 - 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science, General Engineering (Mechatronics)

2011 - 2013
Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science, Robotic Systems Development & Machine Learning

2020 - 2022
Stanford University

Professional Certificate, Artificial Intelligence

Projects

PROFESSIONAL

Everyday Robots

Helper robots for a better everyday.

Born from Google [X], and working alongside several teams at Google, we’re building a new type of robot. One that can learn by itself, to help anyone with (almost) anything.

COVERED BY
PROFESSIONAL

Marble  

Sidewalk delivery robots to aid with congestion issues in last-mile logistics.

COVERED BY
GRAD SCHOOL

Carnegie Mellon

Several projects at the Robotics Institute:

- Aerial navigation & obstacle avoidance using a self-assembled Arducopter

- Programming HERB to play tic-tac-toe

- Mapping Planetary Caves with an Autonomous,Heterogeneous Robot Team : Paper

Photos

ONLINE LEARNING

Stanford

Various courses on state of the art AI/ML: My Notes

- Natural Language Processing (XCS224N)

- Natural Language Understanding (XCS224U)

   Project: Strong Supervision for Visual Questioning Answering on GQA (Paper)

- Machine Learning (XCS229)

    Project: RL based hyperparameter tuning for stock prediction (Paper, Code)

- Deep Reinforcement Learning (CS285)