I am a Post-Doctoral fellow at SIRRL at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn and Professor Chrystopher Nehaniv. I graduated with a Ph.D. degree from REAL at The Pennsylvania State University, under the supervision of Professor Alan R. Wagner. Before joining Penn State, I completed my undergraduate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. I was also a part of the Global UGRAD program funded by USEFP and spent a semester at the University of Central Missouri during my undergraduate studies.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML), Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Cognitive Science. My research focus is to enable long-term autonomy for assistive robots in real-world environments. I develop continual learning techniques that can allow autonomous robots to learn from their users and then use the learned knowledge to assist users over the long term. These techniques are backed by rigorous testing in simulation and physical testing on robotic platforms with human users.