Ahad Jawaid

Hi, I'm Ahad Jawaid.

I'm a robotics and deep learning researcher, really interested in creating high-throughput autonomous robots that can accomplish underspecified goals.

I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of cool people. I worked with Professor Yu Xiang from the University of Texas at Dallas on learning robotic manipulation from videos during my master's.

I also worked with Professor Berrak Sisman from Johns Hopkins University on style transfer text-to-speech during my undergrad.

Previously, I worked at Amazon as a software engineer for Alexa during my junior year, and again during my master's with the Bedrock team.

Research

Offline RL with Hierarchical Action Chunking (HiQC)

LIT @ ICLR 2026

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

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