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.

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