Hi, I'm Ahad Jawaid.

I'm a builder, engineer, and scientist who believes in humanity's ability to solve any problem.

Some important problems I'm interested in solving:

Space colonization via self-replicating autonomous robots (working on this)
The user interface problem via brain-computer interfaces
All diseases (including aging) via biotech

If you're interested in collaborating, chatting about these problems, or funding me, reach out at .

Research

Offline RL with Hierarchical Action Chunking (HiQC)

Ahad Jawaid

RLC 2026 and LIT @ ICLR 2026 Workshop

TL;DR: Hierarchical goal-conditioned offline RL: latent planning plus action chunks and chunk-conditioned critics for deeper backups and long-horizon OGBench performance.

PaperWebsitePoster

OpenEgo: A Large-Scale Egocentric Manipulation Dataset

Ahad Jawaid, Yu Xiang

Physical Inc

TL;DR: A large-scale egocentric dataset and framework for learning dexterous manipulation skills from human demonstration videos.

PaperWebsiteAnnouncementGitHub

StyleMoE: Style-Aware Mixture of Experts for Expressive TTS

Ahad Jawaid, Shreeram Suresh Chandra, Junchen Lu, Berrak Sisman

Audio Imagination @ NeurIPS 2024

TL;DR: A mixture-of-experts approach that partitions the style space of reference speech, letting expert routers specialize for more expressive style-transfer text-to-speech.

Projects

Bimanual Towel Folding Robot

A bimanual robot that learns to fold towels, with a follow-up using real-time chunking (RTC) for smoother execution.

Detachable Robot Arm

A robot arm with a detachable, self-detaching gripper for tool-use and modular manipulation.

Speech LM

An implementation of a speech language model trained to generate and continue audio.

Biomemex

A bio lab AI copilot that tracks your procedure and flags mistakes.

Chessbot

A physical robot that plays chess against you on a real board.

Lumid

Lumid

An iOS app that turns any text into natural, expressive speech you can listen to anywhere.

BrainBeats

BrainBeats

Type a topic, pick a genre, press play. Turn knowledge into music and make learning unforgettable.

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Writing

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Experience

Founder · Physical Inc
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Software Engineer · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
May 2025 – Aug 2025
Founder · Lumid Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
Researcher · Intelligent Robotics and Vision Lab, UT Dallas
May 2024 – Present
Researcher · Speech and Machine Learning Lab, UT Dallas
Aug 2023 – May 2024
Software Engineer · Amazon
May 2023 – Aug 2023

Awards

2025TAMUHack 2025, Best Design
2024Jonsson School Undergraduate Research Award
2024TAMUHack 2024, Best Use of AI in Education
2023HackUTD 2023, 1st place in Patient Safety Challenge
2022HackUTD 2022, 3rd place in CBRE Challenge
2022WeHack 2022, 3rd place in Toyota Challenge

Teaching

Workshops

Deep Learning with fast.aiVideo Materials
Machine Learning with Hugging Face (HackUTD X)Materials

ML Mondays

Week 1: Introduction to ML MondaysVideo Materials
Week 2: Introduction to Deep Learning, Part 1Video Materials
Week 3: Introduction to Deep Learning, Part 2Video Materials
Week 4: Training and Deploying a ML ModelVideo Materials
Week 5: Computer VisionVideo Materials
Week 6: Introduction to Natural Language ProcessingVideo
Week 7: Natural Language Processing, TransformersVideo
Week 8: Introduction to Reinforcement LearningVideo
Week 9: Reinforcement LearningVideo