Asad Tirmizi

Co-founder and CEO of Trener Robotics (formerly T-ROBOTICS), a San Francisco and Trondheim-based startup building Acteris, a robot-agnostic AI skills platform for industrial automation. He holds a PhD and previously worked at Vicorious (acquired by Google) and contributed to robotics and haptics programs at ByteDance, following a tenure at a European manufacturing research institute. He co-founded Trener Robotics in 2024 with CTO Lars Tingelstad based on their doctoral collaboration at the University of Siena and NTNU.