Hi ^_^

I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, co-advised by Dr. Kelsey Allen at UBC and Dr. Tom Silver at Princeton University. I’m also affiliated with Princeton Robot Planning and Learning Group (PRPL). Before this, I completed my Master’s in Computer Science at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Dr. Levi Lelis.

I’m interested in understanding how to learn physical strategies from only a few demonstrations and generalize beyond what was observed. Currently, I study how learned abstractions and structured policies can support generalization from limited experience. More broadly, I’m interested in reinforcement learning, world models, and cognitively inspired approaches to learning and reasoning.

You can contact me at zbashir1@student.ubc.ca OR zb2882@princeton.edu.

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