Fawad Ahmad

Currently, I am on leave from RIT. During this time, I am working on ML Infrastructure at Google.

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California where I had the good fortune to be advised by Prof. Ramesh Govindan. Before that, I received the Presidential Medal, and the University Gold Medal for my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar.

In my research, I build the foundations for live 3D digital twins — entities that continuously capture, update, and understand the world around us. To do this, my work advances real-time cooperative and infrastructure-enhanced 3D perception, develops compact representations for sharing 3D data at scale, and creates adaptive systems that sustain low-latency perception under real-world constraints. This lays the groundwork for Physical AI with applications in autonomous driving, smart cities, sports analytics, drone navigation, and mixed reality.