About
Alireza Azimi
I’m a computer engineer and scientist with a strong passion for tackling complex problems.
Life Updates
- Joining Sanctuary AI in May 2026
- Defended M.Sc. thesis in April 2026
Talks
Sim-to-Real of PandaPickCube Task
Tea-Time-Talk, University of Alberta, July-10-2025Benchmarking Action Space using Sim-to-Real
Research Talk, University of Alberta, December-16-2025
Education
M.Sc. in Computing Science (Artificial Intelligence)
University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB
September 2023 – April 2026
- Thesis: Benchmarking Action Spaces in Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based Robotic Manipulation - Research areas: reinforcement learning, robotic manipulation, computer vision, sim-to-real transfer
B.Sc. in Software Engineering
University of Alberta — Edmonton, AB
2022 – 2025
Reading List
These are the books I’ve read and I’m reading. Mostly non-academic.
2026
- “Start with Why” by Simon Sinek
- “Quantitative Trading” by Ernest Chan
- “Can’t Hurt Me” by David Goggins \(\rightarrow\) Highly recommend!
2025
- “Sapiens” by Noah Harari
- “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
- “A short history of Tractors in Ukranian” by Marina Lewycka
2024
- “The Intelligent Investor” by Ben Graham
- “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov
- “Mathematics for Machin Learning” by Diesenroth et. al. \(\rightarrow\) Highly recommmend!
- “Introduction to Classical and Quantum Computing” by T.G. Wang