Wingman provides freelance product experts (such as gadget geeks or pro sportsmen) who give live 1:1 video shopping consultations on e-commerce websites on a pure commission basis. We are a B2B company focusing on high-value items such as cameras, mattresses, coffee machines, snowboarding kits, baby strollers, and jewelry, and people have many product questions before they make a purchase decision.

Created Nemo (https://nemosearch.ai/) – a search engine for video and laser data. It uses computer vision and contextual scene understanding AI to search for relevant scenes, such as a specific traffic scenario in large video or laser datasets.Took it from 0-to-1 and led go-to-market, product strategy, sales, and business partnerships.Closed deals with BMW, Bosch, Continental, Denso, AWS, Dell, and others, representing multi $M LTV. Launched 4 market verticals: automotive, insurance, Govt. and Industrial.Companies use Nemo for various purposes, including autonomous driving, factory floor safety monitoring, traffic surveillance, and truck driver coaching. We also open-sourced a Traffic Scenario Description Library for objective and accurate traffic scenario descriptions for simulation and post-accident scene reconstruction.

Auro Robotics, the startup I co-founded, became the Autonomous Driving Division of Ridecell post its acquisition by Ridecell in 2017. In my new role, I continued to lead the division, focusing on product strategy, sales, business development, operations, marketing, and hiring.- Expanded product & mission from campus golf carts to public-road self-driving cars.- Introduced Empty Vehicle Automation feature for car-sharing vehicles.- Closed deals with university campuses, Govt agencies, and tech vendors for MLOps, simulation, hardware, and data labeling.

Auro Robotics built self-driving shuttles for transportation within campus-like environments, such as a university campus, retirement community, and business park.Auro was part of the Y Combinator S15 batch and was backed by some of the top Silicon Valley VCs and angel investors. It was acquired by Ridecell in 2017. I was responsible for company strategy, fundraising, sales, tech partnerships, operations, marketing, and hiring.Auro's AVs were among the first commercial deployments in the US, ferrying students daily at Santa Clara University. US federal agency NHTSA bought Auro's autonomous vehicle as a reference to draft safety regulations for the self-driving industry.

AadhaarUp offers a pocket-size point-of-sale (POS) terminal and a one-click checkout mechanism for receiving online payments. It was backed and funded by the GSF startup accelerator. - Developed ultra-low-cost digital magnetic card reader and fingerprint reader devices- Managed IT security and back-end server administration for PCI compliance- Created an Android app that enables merchants to accept payments while on the move.

AGV (Autonomous Ground Vehicle) is a research group at IIT Kharagpur working on autonomous vehicles and outdoor mobile robots. Under my leadership, the group grew to a strong multi-disciplinary team of 30 people, including several PhDs, researchers, and professors, received a research grant of $400K, published several research papers, and participated in several national and international robotics competitions.In the 2010 Student Robotics Competition organized by DRDO (India’s defense organization) for developing Autonomous Ground Vehicles for Low-Intensity Conflicts, the team won the Best Engineering Design Award, Best Vehicle Dynamics Award, and Best White paper Award (covered by The Hindu and Times of India).

I interned in the field of brain-computer interfaces under Dr. Ranganatha Sitaram and Dr. Niels Birbaumer at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tubingen, Germany.I developed (and open-sourced) software for the real-time classification of emotional brain states using fMRI signals. The toolbox, along with the associated research, was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience journal.