Yasir is a Research Fellow at the Industrial Robotics Facility (InBot) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) where he is contributing to the different ongoing projects in the group. He is currently working on THALES-USL and a.Quantum projects aiming to develop and test a locomotion prototype for extraterrestrial rovers and a flexible manipulator to perform maintenance tasks respectively.
Before joining this role, Yasir completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova where he worked on the performance optimization of industrial robots using 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 where he spent 7 months during his Ph.D. He also spent 6 months as a visiting Ph.D. 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. After his masters degree, he worked on a startup company where he and his team were building drones for the precision agriculture applications.