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Ali Ahmad

About Me

I'm currently a sophomore at Stanford studying CS. I am doing research on spatial reasoning and robot manipulation, advised by Chris Manning and Karen Liu, respectively. I'm lucky to be mentored by Albert Wu, Sharon Lee, and Fan-Yun Sun. I also coach a high school VEX robotics team in the Bay Area. We're currently ranked 6th in the world!

I previously worked at Trestle as a SWE intern. I was also a software team member of Stanford AUV, where I wrote controls for autonomous underwater vehicles.

If you're interested, here's a longer, more informal bio.

I'll be in the Bay Area this summer working on some pretty cool stuff. Please reach out if you want to meet up :)!

Interests

I am broadly interested in making robots intelligent through learning and interaction. I deeply believe in the potential for AI and robotics to make a larger than Internet-scale delta on our world. Robots will be found everywhere in our daily lives — from homes to factories, replacing humans in tedious and dangerous tasks.

There are two main problems we are facing right now: improving reasoning for long horizon tasks and improving manipulation for interfacing with the world. I am interested in tackling frontier problems.

Contact

I love talking about anything and everything! I'm pretty easy to reach.

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Edited April 5, 2025