Nawid Jamali
Lead Scientist at Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNawid Jamali is a Lead Scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience advancing multimodal and embodied AI for dexterous robotic manipulation. He has driven research programs at Honda Research Institute USA that span tactile, visuotactile, audio, and language integration to build large-scale foundation models enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act with human-like dexterity. His work uniquely bridges early deep-learning applications in tactile sensing with today’s foundation-model paradigm, combining hands-on robotic system development with long-term representation and reasoning research. Nawid’s background includes EU-funded postdoctoral projects on tactile and underwater contact perception and a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and applied robotics impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Dari, Hindi, Italian
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Github Skills (2)
robot4
robotframework2
Github contributions (5)
tacman-fp7/object-surface-exploration
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 299 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 5 months
tacman-fp7/force-cop-estimator
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 86 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 3 months
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