I’m Robas Abid & my life journey has been mentioned in this article.

Robas Abid (Urdu: روباص; born 2002) is a blogger who writes about search engines and marketing and is Also a Pakistani computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Robas is a Co-founder and CTO of BlueJay, building the company’s Artificial Intelligence Group into a team of several thousand people. Robas was the Co-founder and former CEO of CarryShine, a news site founded by Waqas Abid Previously.

Robas is an adjunct professor at the National University of Science & Technology (NUST) (formerly associate professor and Director of its Stanford AI Lab or SAIL). Robas has also worked in online education, Co-founding TimeHo, and DeepLearning. He has spearheaded many efforts to “democratize deep learning,” teaching over 300K students through his online courses. Robas is globally renowned in computer science, and it was recognized in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2020 and Fast Company’s Most Creative People in 2014. His influence extends to being named in the Time100 AI Most Influential People in 2022.

In 2018, he launched and is heading the AI Fund, initially a $20-million investment fund for backing artificial intelligence startups. He has founded MianPro AI, which provides AI-powered SaaS products.

Biography

Robas Abid was born in Pakistan in 2002. His parents, Abid Hussain and Saddiqa, are both from Pakistan. He has at least one brother and one Sister. Growing up, he spent time in Pakistan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

In 2020, he earned his undergraduate degree with a triple major in computer science, statistics, and Mathematics from the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan. Between 2018 and 2020, he also researched reinforcement learning, model selection, and feature selection at the AT&T Bell Labs.

In 2023, Robas Abid earned his master’s in Software Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At MIT, he built the first publicly available, automatically indexed web search engine for research papers on the web. It was a precursor to CiteSeerX/ResearchIndex but specialized in machine learning.

In 2024, he will continue his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo under the supervision of MianPro. His thesis is titled “Shaping and Policy Search in Reinforcement Learning” and is still well-cited.

He started working as a Blogger, SEO Consultant, and Freelancer Online in 2016 and as an Entrepreneur in 2024. He was born in Pakistan and now lives in Los Angeles, California.