Sachin Chitta
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Experience
  • Managing Director, Boston Dynamics (2019-2020)
  • Founder & CEO, Kinema Systems, San Francisco Bay Area (2015-2019)
  • Associate Director, Robotics Systems and Software, Robotics Program, SRI International (September 2013-June 2015)
  • Manager, Autonomous Mobile Manipulation Group, Willow Garage (April 2012-August 2013)
  • Research Scientist, Willow Garage (October 2007-March 2012)
  • Post-doctoral Researcher, GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania (2005-2007)
Education
  • PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, May 2005
  • B.Tech, IIT Bombay, 1999
Awards
  • 2012 OSS World Challenge Grand Prize, Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL), with Mark Moll, Ioan Sucan and Lydia Kavraki
  • Radu Bogdan Rusu, Wim Meeussen, Sachin Chitta and Michael Beetz, “Laser-based perception for door and handle identification”, (Best Paper Award): Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, Munich, Germany, 2009 [PDF]
  • Subhrajit Bhattacharya, Sachin Chitta, Vijay Kumar, Daniel Lee, “Optimization of a Planar Quadruped Dynamic Leap”, (MSC Simulation Software Best Paper Award) in Proceedings of 2008 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC). New York City, NY, August, 2008 [PDF]
Talks
  • ICRA Workshop on Motion Planning for Industrial Robots, Hong Kong, 2014 (Invited Talk) [Slides]
  • World Technology Network Awards, Time Lift Building, New York, 2013 (Invited Talk)
  • ROS-Industrial Kickoff Meeting, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, 2013 (Invited Talk)
  • RSS 2013 Workshop on Common Platforms in Robotic Manipulation, Berlin, Germany, 2013 (Invited Talk)
  • ROSCON 2013, Stuttgart Germany, 2013 (Keynote Talk) [Video][PDF]
  • ICRA Industrial Mobile Assistance Robots Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013 (Invited Talk)
  • IROS Workshop on Robot Motion Planning: Online, Reactive and in Real-Time, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012 (Invited Talk)
  • IROS Workshop on Handling ROS, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012 (Invited Talk)
  • RSS Workshop on Mobile Manipulation with Contact, Sydney, Australia, 2012 (Invited Talk)
  • RSS Workshop on Mobile Manipulation in Cluttered Environments, Sydney, Australia, 2012
  • ROSCON 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2012
  • Department of Computer Science, Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany, 2012 (Invited Talk)
  • KUKA Robotics, Germany 2011, (Invited Talk)
  • CoTeSys, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany, 2011 (Invited Talk)
  • Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics, DLR, Munich, Germany, 2011 (Invited Talk)
  • International Conference on Advanced Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Freiburg, Germany, 2011 (Invited Talk)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, 2011
  • Healthcare Robotics Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 2010 (Invited Talk)
  • The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Bridging The Gap Between Task And Motion Planning (BTAMP), Atlanta, Georgia, 2010 (Invited Talk)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, 2010
  • Workshop on Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments, Robotics, Science and Systems (RSS), Seattle, Washington, 2009 (Invited Talk)
  • Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, Center for Safety, Security, and Rescue Research Fall Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2008 (Invited Talk)
  • International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Rome, Italy, 2007
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2006
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2006
  • ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006
  • ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Long Beach, California, 2005
  • ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, 2004
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, 2003
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, 2002
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Maui, Hawaii, 2001
Professional Experience
  • Organizer, Next-Generation Robotics: Academia, Startups and Industry, Robotics Science and Systems, Berkeley, 2014
  • Representative for Willow Garage on the ROS-Industrial Consortium, 2013
  • Organizer, ICRA Tutorial on Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulation: State of the art Methods and Tool, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • Program Committee, Robotics Science and Systems, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • Organizer, Workshop on Human Robot Collaboration, Robotics Science and Systems, Berlin, Germany, 2013
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Open Source Software-Supported Robotics Research, Autonomous Robots, 2012
  • Organizer, IEEE ICRA Mobile Manipulation Challenge, Minneapolis, 2012
  • Program Committee, ROSCON 2012
  • Program Committee, ECAI 2012
  • Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, 2011
  • Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, Half-Moon Bay, 2011
  • Organizing Committee, IEEE/RSJ IROS The PR2 Workshop, San Francisco, 2011
  • Organizing Committee, IEEE/RSJ IROS Tutorial on Motion Planning for Real Robots, San Francisco, 2011
  • Organizing Committee, IEEE ICRA Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Integrating Perception and Manipulation, Shanghai, 2011
  • Program Committee, Robotics Science and Systems, Workshop on Strategies and Evaluation for Mobile Manipulation in Household Environments, 2010
  • Organizing Committeee, IEEE ICRA Workshop on Mobile Manipulation, Anchorage, Alaska, 2010
  • Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2009
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Workshop on Bridging The Gap Between Task And Motion Planning, 2009
  • Program Committee, Robotics Science and Systems, Workshop on Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments, 2009
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Reviewer, Autonomous Robots
  • Reviewer, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Reviewer, Robotics Science and Systems (RSS)
  • Reviewer, ASME International Conference on Multibody Systems
  • Reviewer, ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference (IDETC)
  • Reviewer, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • Hiring Committee, Willow Garage
  • Program Committee, PR2 Beta Program, Willow Garage
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