faseeh ahmad

General Information

Full Name:	Faseeh Ahmad
Date of Birth:	Feb. 16, 1993
Languages:	Urdu (Native), English (Fluent), Swedish (Beginner)
CV(PDF):	CV.pdf

2020 - 2025

Lund University

Lund, Sweden

<li>Failure Recovery in Robotics: Designing reliable strategies for robots to detect, explain, and recover from both expected and unforeseen failures, using reinforcement learning, deep learning, and vision-language models.</li><li>Adaptive Behavior Trees and Motion Generators (BTMGs): Extending BTMGs with Gaussian processes and predictive models for real-time parameter adaptation, enabling robots to generalize across task variations.</li><li>Skill-based Multi-objective Reinforcement Learning: Combining symbolic task planning with reinforcement learning and multi-objective Bayesian optimization to ensure safety, efficiency, and robustness in industrial robot tasks.</li><li>Robot-agnostic Skills for Contact-Rich Tasks: Leveraging knowledge representation and task planning to design flexible skills transferable across different robots and tasks, demonstrated in wiping, assembly, and manipulation.</li><li>Vision-Language Models for Robotic Autonomy: Integrating VLMs with reactive planning and BTs for proactive failure prediction, runtime monitoring, and context-aware recovery.</li><li>Future Work: Exploring Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and diffusion policies for generating new robot actions on the fly.</li><li>Funding: Financed by WASP Sweden.</li><li>Thesis Title: Towards Self-Reliant Robots: Skill Learning, Failure Recovery, and Real-Time Adaptation.</li><li>Supervision: Prof. Dr. Volker Krüger, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elin Anna Topp, Prof. Dr. Jacek Malec.</li>

2016 - 2019

Sabanci University

Istanbul, Turkey

Hybrid Planning for Construction Problems: Applying Answer Set Programming (ASP) to enable robots to solve complex construction problems, ensuring stable and feasible plans for tasks like building bridges and overhangs.</li><li>Thesis Title: Robot Construction Problems as an application of answer set programming.</li><li>Supervised by Prof. Dr. Esra Erdem and Prof. Dr. Volkan Patoglu

2011 - 2015

University of Engineering and Technology

Lahore, Pakistan

Thesis title: Design and Construction of a Search and Rescue Robot.</li><li>Supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Raza

2020 - 2024

Lund University

Lund, Sweden

Artificial Intelligence</li><li>Applied Machine learning</li><li>Intelligent Autonomous Systems

2016 - 2019

Cognitive Robotics Lab, Sabanci University

Istanbul, Turkey

Worked on NP-hard problems like robot construction problem such as stacking, sorting and stability tests. </li><li>Responsibilities included: 1. Organised demonstrations with BAXTER and Kuka robots for the student visits. 2. Conducting simulations with Gazebo and integrate it with ROS.

2016 - 2019

Sabanci University

Istanbul, Turkey

Served as a teaching assistant for Math 101 (Calculus I), Math 102 (Calculus II), Math 202 (Introduction to Differential Equations), and Math 203 (Introduction to Probability). </li><li>Responsibilities included solving questions in recitations, conducting quizzes, and grading exams.

2016 - 2019

Sabanci University

Istanbul, Turkey

Assisted in the Academic Development Program, helping students strengthen basic concepts in various courses, enhancing their academic performance and understanding.

2015 - 2015

LUMS

Lahore, Pakistan

Worked as a TA in the Engineering Laboratory, focusing on industrial machines like CNC and lathe</li><li>machines, conducting quizzes, and helping students grasp theoretical concepts. Also contributed to research in the field of forestation.