We are a group of food-motivated roboticists who believe that kitchen automation is the future of the food industry.
Harshit Agrawal – Hardware and Sensing Lead
Harshit is currently pursuing Masters in Robotics Systems Development from Carnegie Mellon University. He did his undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication engineering from Vellore Institute of Technology. He has a strong foundation in ROS, Electronics, and Computer Vision. He served as the CTO at Aliste Technologies, an end-to-end IoT solution provider with its primary focus on home automation. He likes doing stand-up comedy.
Sai Shruthi Balaji – Perception Lead
Shruthi is a current MRSD student at CMU and a software engineer contributing to the perception stack of Ratatouille. She worked at HPE as a Software Developer for 3 years and at Minus Zero, a self-driving car company as a Perception Engineer for 8 months. Her technical experience spans the areas of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. She is passionate about building technology using AI and Robotics for social good. She is also a big-time foodie and could really use a cooking robot in her busy grad life, so what better way to put her skills to use?
Abhishek Pavani – Systems Integration Lead
Abhishek is a Master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has several years of experience working on the design and development of UAVs. He is interested in exploring ways to make robots more accessible and useful in unstructured environments. When he is not working on robots, he likes exploring nature or playing outdoor sports.
Mohith Sakthivel – Robot Learning & Controls Lead
Mohith is a robotics engineer interested in the perception and control of autonomous systems. His areas of expertise include deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision. He is also very passionate about other topics in AI like representation learning, abstraction, Bayesian and causal reasoning, and their role in building intelligent systems.
Nevin Valsaraj – Software Systems Architect & Project Manager
Nevin is a graduate student at CMU Robotics Institute pursuing a degree in robotics. He is a Computer Science major from IIT Kharagpur with 5 years of experience as a software engineer at Microsoft. He is currently focused on perception and deep learning.