Yasmin Tauqeer Ansari obtained her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and M.Sc degree in computer science and engineering from the prestigious University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan. She is among the conducted her doctoral research scholar under Professor Cecilia Laschi in the SMART-E project headed at the prestigious Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Italy. This led to her becoming the first Pakistani to obtain a doctorate in the field of soft robotics in 2018. Currently, she is working as a senior post-doctoral researcher with the same group, working on various ground breaking European projects, one of which is GrowBot, aimed to push the boundaries of robotic technologies by taking inspiration from plants for different solution opportunities. Her current research interests include soft robotics, robot control and cognition, and machine learning.