I’m a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Yaak, where I lead all robotics work, from hardware and data collection to training policies and deploying them on robots. Before that I was at Tesla, writing software for Gigafactory expansion, and I started my career at Google at 18 in London, working on Chrome, Android and the web platform.
Born in England to Persian parents, grew up in London, now living in Berlin.
I write about robot learning, ML and engineering, and sometimes life.
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Teleoperating a robot arm with glovesRecently I built a teleoperation stack controlled by motion-capture (mocap) gloves, and used it to collect roughly an hour of robot demonstrations. It works…
too much keyboardrecently I stopped using my ZSA Voyager, a $365 ortholinear split keyboard (I bought it second hand in new condition for €300 in February). all the cool kids…
23 years oldEven though I haven't posted in a while, I still enjoy keeping up this yearly tradition of writing a post on my birthday. This time I'll keep it simple and…
the books, videos and papers I'm using to learn Maths, AI and Roboticslast week I shared that I left Tesla to pivot into AI and robotics at Yaak AI. naturally, people were curious as to how I'm planning to learn these new topics,…
Leaving Tesla to work on roboticsafter almost 2 years at Tesla, I decided to part ways ~2 weeks ago (my last actual day was Jan 30). my first day, April 2024: I'm grateful that they allowed me…