Abrar Anwar
Hi! I'm an Ph.D student at the University of Southern California, where I work with Jesse Thomason on building and evaluating language-guided robots. I build robots that interact with their environment and other humans, and study how humans percieve their actions. I have been interning with the NVIDIA Isaac Mobility team working with Dr. Yan Chang and Prof. Joydeep Biswas, working on mobility foundation models for Isaac GR00T. I was a visiting scholar at Cornell with Tapo Bhattacharjee working on assistive robotics for people with mobility limitations. Previously at UT Austin, I worked on human-robot interaction with the Building-Wide Intelligence Project with Justin Hart and Peter Stone. I also completed an honors thesis with Chandrajit Bajaj. I previously interned at Sandia National Labs with the Neural Exploration and Research Lab. Over three years, I had the pleasure of working with James Aimone, Craig Vineyard, and many others! Design and source code from Jon Barron's website
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