Ali Kuwajerwala

Master's student in AI & Robotics @ Mila/UdeM

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Hi there! šŸ˜ƒ

My name is Ali and Iā€™m a soon-to-be-graduating masterā€™s student at Mila & the University of MontrĆ©al, supervised by Prof. Liam Paull at the Montreal Robotics and Embodied AI Lab. Iā€™m quite passionate about AI and robotics research, and engaged in the quest to understand and simulate intelligence. The ConceptFusion and ConceptGraphs papers which I worked on during my masters are small steps towards this goal.

I am currently actively seeking out work opportunities for both full-time roles and internships. Iā€™m open to relocation and non-robotics roles, what matters to me is working on important problems! You can take a look at my resume here. If youā€™d like to get in touch, please donā€™t hesitate to email me at alihusein.kuwajerwala@x, x=umontreal.ca, or on Twitter/LinkedIn!

Previously, I interned at the Alexa AI team at Amazon, where I worked on using large language models for querying databases. In between my undergrad and masterā€™s I was a student researcher at the Robot, Vision and Learning Lab at the University of Toronto supervised by Prof. Florian Shkurti where I worked on visual navigation for mobile robots. Iā€™ve also worked in software engineering roles at Epson and Liquid Analytics.

My undergrad was at the Univeristy of Toronto where I studied CS & Math, and also worked as a Teaching Assistant. During my time there I was co-founder of the UTM Robotics Club, and a recipient of the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award.

Iā€™ve also worked on a couple of fun coding projects which you can look at via my github profile.

When Iā€™m not staring at a screen all day, you can find me training jiu-jitsu, listening to audiobooks and podcasts, doodling, and/or chatting with wonderful people on my podcast. āœŒļø

news

Feb 01, 2024 ConceptGraphs was accepted to ICRA! šŸŒø
Apr 05, 2023 ConceptFusion was accepted to RSS! šŸ›ļø
Apr 16, 2022 The Equivariant Representations paper was accepted to ICRA 2022! šŸŽ‰
Mar 31, 2020 Received the NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award! šŸ¤“
Apr 06, 2019 Co-founded the UTM Robotics Club as Head of Operations! šŸ¦¾

selected publications

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    ConceptGraphs: Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graphs for Perception and Planning
    Alihusein Kuwajerwala ,Ā Qiao Gu ,Ā Sacha Morin , and 13 more authors
    2024
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    ConceptFusion: Open-set Multimodal 3D Mapping
    Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula ,Ā Alihusein Kuwajerwala ,Ā Qiao Gu , and 13 more authors
    2023