RIZWANASIFRobotics & Artificial

Intelligence EngineerWith Experience inBusiness Development .

PROFESSIONAL PROFILEI am an enthusiastic robotics and artificial

intelligence developer, with more than 4 years of

experience in programming and application

development.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

2019 Young Investigator Award AIKE, Italy

2018   Best paper award by ICHCI 2018, UK

2017   Honorable mention at 1776 Cup, Isb

2017 Grant for JAZZ XLR8 program MWC,

Spain

2016   Joint Secretary of the Year, Award by

NUST Science Society

2015   National Finalist in Microsoft Imagine Cup

2014   100%ile Score in Mensa International IQ

CONTACT DETAILS:

Email: contact@rizasif.com

Blog: blog.rizasif.com

Website: www.rizasif.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Cloud Backend Developer

A startup focused on providing addressing as a service through crowd

sourcing. My responsibility is to create and maintain a Firebase database

and ensure its applicability with react-native front-end. Moreover,

participating in business and marketing workshops.

Map Project SE | Oct 2018 - July 2019

EDUCATION

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE

and Aalto University, FI

- EIT Digital Scholarship.

- Entrepreneurship Track.

- Courses pertaining to Robotics, AI and ML.

Masters in Autonomous Systems, 2020

National University of Science and Technology, PK

- Four years program.

- Conference paper in robotics during final year.

- Joint secretary establishment in NUST Science Society.

Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Independent CoursesOnline Education

- ND185: Secure and Private AI

- CS373: Artificial Intelligence for Robotics.

- HGG1: ETH Robotics Operating System.

- UD120: Intro to Machine Learning.

- UD730: Deep Learning.

- CS253: Web Development.

- UD853: Developing Android Apps.

- "Placing Objects with prior In-Hand Manipulation using Dexterous

Manipulation Graphs." 2019 IEEE-RAS International Conference on

Humanoid Robots (Humanoids). Haustein. et al.

- "Aerial Path Planning for Multi-Vehicles," 2019 IEEE Second International

Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (AIKE),

Sardinia, Italy, 2019, Asif, et al.

- "Whole-body motion and footstep planning for humanoid robots with

multi-heuristic search." Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2019). Asif, et

al.

- "Whole-body motion planning for humanoid robots with heuristic

search." Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016 IEEE/RSJ

International Conference on. IEEE, 2016. Athar. et al.

- "Hand Gestures Based Emotion Identification Using Flex Sensors".

International Journal of Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, Mechatronic

and Manufacturing Engineering, (2018), Ali, et al.

SKILLSHARD: Robotics Operating System (ROS),

Python, C++, Java, OpenCV, App Engine, Git.

SOFT: Search and sampling algorithms,

reinforcement learning, generative adversarial

networks, HMMs.

LANGUAGESEnglish, Urdu

CTO and Co-Founder

Started a digital studio pertaining to SEO, social media marketing,

website and mobile development. My responsibility was to create and

manage the technical pipeline of the organization as well as managing

business linkages, hiring and training new recruits.

Codistan PK | Oct 2016 - Jun 2018

Research Assistant

Working with two PhD students for manipulation planning of dual arm

ABB-YUMI robot. The project uses dexterous manipulation graphs to find

feasible placement regions for a rigid object in the robot end-effector.

Department of Robotics Perception and Learning KTH SE| Mar 2019 - July 2019

MORE EXPERIENCE

Internship

Worked in the Electrical Engineering department of the largest semi-

government corporation of Pakistan. Understood the working of energy

generation, industrial motors, PLC programming and large scale circuit

diagrams.

Fauji Fertilizers Ltd PK | Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

Space Internship

Summer internship with the national space agency of Pakistan. Where I

worked on the student satellite project. Studied different sub-systems

specifically the electrical and CDH sub-systems. Along with research on

the difference between ground and space electronic components.

Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission PK| Jun 2013 - Jul 2013

IT Internship

Served in the directorate of information technology. Mainly helped in

developing the IT policy and creating a digital marketing strategy for the

organization.

University of Agriculture PK | Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

OTHER PROJECTS

People Counter

The objective of the project was to count the number of people and

predict their age and gender in a video file. The project was completed

using python, OpenCv and Keras.

Freelance | May 2018 - Jun 2018

Google Tensorflow

Identified and reported a bug in the central repository of Tensorflow deep

learning library. The suggestion was then merged with the central

repository in Github.

Open Source Project | Jan 2017 - Feb 2017

One Glove

Created a gesture detection glove using arduino, gyroscopes, flex sensors

and android libraries. The project got a place in the national round of

Microsoft Image Cup and later won 2nd prize in dice idea competition.

Personal Project | Jan 2014 - May 2014

Volunteer

Became part of my University's largest society as a technical team

member and rose to the rank of director and then secretary. Major project

is a digital scavenger hunt where I served as leader. Apart from that

managed several technical and design workshops.

NUST Science Society PK | Aug 2013 - Jun 2016

Volunteer

Became part of my University's largest society as a technical team

member and rose to the rank of director and then secretary. Major project

is a digital scavenger hunt where I served as leader. Apart from that

managed several technical and design workshops.

Excitera KTH SE | Feb 2019 - Present

AI Research Internship

Remote work with the physical intelligence department, in Stuttgart

Germany, on endoscopic capsule robots and medical video enhancement

using generative adversarial networks and deep reinforcement learning.

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems DE | Feb 2018 - Aug 2018