Ali Kuwajerwala

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

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Hi there! 😃

My name is Ali and I’m a soon-to-be-graduating master’s student at Mila & the University of MontrĆ©al, supervised by Prof. Liam Paull at the Montreal Robotics and Embodied AI Lab. I’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. I’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 you’d like to get in touch, please don’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 master’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. I’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.

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

When I’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! 🌸
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! 🦾

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