Asad Ali Shahid

I am a researcher at IDSIA (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence), the Swiss AI Lab, affiliated with SUPSI and USI in Lugano, Switzerland. My research focuses on reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, and human-robot interaction. I am particularly interested in enabling humanoid robots to perform physically skilled, temporally precise behaviors—moving beyond locomotion toward expressive manipulation. More broadly, I aim to develop agents that can acquire diverse physical skills and collaborate meaningfully with humans in real-world environments. I am also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.

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