Building AI Systems That Understand & Adapt to You

Welcome to the Personal and Interactive Autonomous Systems (PaInt) Laboratory at Concordia! Our goal is to develop AI systems that seamlessly integrate with and support people in their dynamic environments over the long term.

One of the core problems that we work on is long-term personalization through a bi-directional relationship between AI agents (such as robots, autonomous vehicles, LLMs, recommender systems, etc.) and their users. In this relationship, users can continually interact with and teach AI agents about their individual preferences and unique environments, and these agents can provide long-term personalized assistance to the users by reasoning on the continually acquired knowledge.

Our lab's expertise spans robotics, human-robot interaction, machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and cognitive science. We ground our work through various applications, such as assistive robotic arms and mobile manipulators, autonomous vehicles, smart systems, and in experiments with real human participants.

Robotics & HRI

Assistive robotic arms, mobile manipulators, and human-robot interaction

Machine Learning

Continual learning, personalization, and adaptive AI systems

Computer Vision

Visual perception for autonomous systems and environments

Human Studies

Real experiments with human participants to validate research

Latest News

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Feb 2026

Our paper "A Hybrid Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Medical Image Segmentation" has been accepted for publication in Multimedia Systems.

Jan 2026

Congratulations to Syed Abdullah Ali, who has successfully fast-tracked to the PhD program!

Jan 2026

Congratulations to Eeham Khan, who has successfully fast-tracked to the PhD program!

Dec 2025

Deep has successfully defended his Master's thesis! He will be continuing in the lab for his PhD from January onwards.

Sep 2025

Congratulations to Dr. Ali Ayub for being appointed as an Affiliate Faculty Member at Mila!