Syed Asjad
Senior Applied Scientist - AI & Robotics at General Motors
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSyed Asjad is a Senior Applied Scientist focused on AI and robotics, blending a strong foundation in mathematics and physics with hands-on experience across industry and academia in the San Francisco Bay Area. In four years he has moved from smart-grid analytics and robotic sensing to roles at MIT, Meta FAIR, and now General Motors, shipping research-driven solutions for embodied and autonomous systems. He thrives on "unsolvable" engineering challenges and leverages a habit of fast, deep learning—often turning unfamiliar domains into areas of expertise. A licensed Part 107 pilot, he brings practical systems thinking from aerial operations into robot navigation and autonomy design. Not obviously stated on his resume, he relies as much on creative information scavenging ("the art of Googling") as on formal proofs to bridge theory and real-world deployment.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Pre-Engineering, Intermediate, Pre-Engineering at Adam Jee Government Science CollegeElite Summer School, Advanced Technologies for Designing Robotic Systems for Specialized Applications, Elite Summer School, Advanced Technologies for Designing Robotic Systems for Specialized Applications at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at NED University of Engineering and Technology
English, Urdu
Github Skills (64)
simulator10
computer-vision9
reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
python9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
object-detection8
cli8
deep-learning8
pose-estimation8
ai8
machine-learning8
depth-camera8
pytorch8
depth-estimation8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cwru-non-academic/HFI_Robotics_Gimbal
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
ROS2 based camera gimbal control
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
cwru-non-academic/HFI-wiki
May 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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