Ashar Jamal, BSc

About Me

I completed my Bachelor's from the National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) in 2020. From 2020 to 2023, I worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer in the Oil & Gas Industry. I am currently pursuing my MSc in Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Milad Nazarahari at the IDEA Lab, University of Alberta.

Research Interests

• • Bio-mechatronics 

  • Motor Control and Learning

  • Machine Learning

  • Dynamics and Control

  • Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer

  • Renewable Energy

Projects

Graduate Research:

• I am currently working on developing multi-dimensional performance metrics on motor control task activity and learning.

Undergraduate Research:

• During my B.E. my work was focused mainly on heat and mass transfer and renewables. My final project, the Parabolic trough collector was part of the Larger Desalination Plant Project. Under my leadership, the Desalination Plant project reached the Final round of the Finding Innovative Solutions Competition (FICS) in NUST, Islamabad. I also published a book chapter on Combined cooling and power production from Geothermal resources under Dr. Tahir Ratlamwala in Thermodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Geothermal Power Plants

• Apart from that I worked on multiple other projects during my undergraduate including Line Following Car and Remote-Control Plane. Additionally, I have developed robotics and machine learning projects posted on my GitHub in the following Areas:

  • Path Planning & Search Algorithms

  • Computer Vision

  • Image Classification

  • Natural Language Processing

Awards

• • University of Cincinnati Graduate Incentive Award & GRA Fall-23 (USD 54,470/y; not pursued)

  • NUST Financial Aid (Fully Funded-Bachelors)

  • NUST Merit Scholarship, three times (600 CAD)

  • Best Mega Project (Amal Career Prep Fellowship-University of Stanford funded Program)