Ossama Ahmed
Senior Robotics And AI Research Engineer at NVIDIA
Montreal, Quebec, Switzerland
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Top SchoolOssama Ahmed is a Senior Robotics and AI Research Engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world robot control and perception problems. He holds an MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control from ETH Zürich and has blended industry and research roles at NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Max Planck, and Mila under leaders like Bernhard Schölkopf and Yoshua Bengio. His work spans model-based reinforcement learning, MPC under uncertainty, and practical toolbuilding—releasing libraries such as blackbox_mpc and CausalWorld to accelerate reproducible robotics research. At NVIDIA he contributes to Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, bridging simulation and real-robot deployments for safer, data-efficient learning. Known for shipping production-grade inference tooling earlier in his career, he uniquely combines low-level systems engineering (C++, GPU kernels) with cutting-edge probabilistic planning and learning. Based in Montreal and rooted in both academic rigor and industry delivery, he focuses on enabling dynamical systems to learn safely in high-uncertainty real environments.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Robotics Systems and Control Machine Learning, Master of Robotics Systems and Control Machine Learning at ETH ZürichBachelor's Degree Software Engineering (B. Eng), Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering (B. Eng) at McGill University
Github Skills (17)
robotics10
nvidia-isaac10
transfer-learning10
generalization10
reinforcement-learning9
model-predictive-control9
causality9
simulation8
simulator7
game-development5
pybullet5
virtual-reality5
kinematics5
machine-learning4
visual-effects4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ossamaAhmed/blackbox_mpc
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Sampling based Model Predictive Control package for Model-Based RL research
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 10 pushes in 6 days
model-predictive-controlreinforcement-learningderivative-free-optimizationsampling-based-planningmodel-based-rl
ossamaAhmed/ossamaAhmed.github.io
Oct 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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