Yasir is a postdoctoral researcher at the Industrial Robotics Facility of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where he is contributing to different robotics projects related to industrial, aerial and space applications. His main research focus is on kinematics and dynamics, design optimization, motion planning and optimal control of robots.
Before joining this role, Yasir completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova where he worked on the design and performance optimization of industrial robots using dynamic modeling and virtual prototyping techniques. This research was focused on the kinematic and dynamic optimization of industrial robots using multi-body simulations and validating the models experimentally. This PhD was done in collaboration with Campetella Robotic Centre Srl and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. He also spent 6 months as a visiting doctoral researcher at the Robotics and Mechatronics group of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where he worked on improving the repeatability of the drives of the Cartesian robot.
He did his bachelors and masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from 2015 to 2021 with his research focused on dynamics and control systems of machines. After his masters degree, he worked on a startup company where he and his team were building drones for the precision agriculture applications.