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)
- PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, May 2005
- B.Tech, IIT Bombay, 1999
- 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]
- 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
- 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