Abhishek Kathpal
Co-Founder & CTO at Inception Robotics
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAbhishek Kathpal is a robotics-focused CTO and co-founder with 8 years of experience building perception and navigation systems for autonomous platforms. He holds an MEng in Robotics from the University of Maryland and has combined research experience in haptic-enabled manipulators with industry roles at AWS and Airgility. At Inception Robotics he led fundraising efforts and architected a socially-compliant navigation stack for delivery robots while designing a cloud platform tailored to robotic workloads. Technically fluent in Python, C++, OpenCV, TensorFlow and AWS, he bridges algorithm research and scalable cloud deployments to move robots from lab demos to operational products. Based in College Park, MD, he also pursues practical integrations—evident from demoed systems and platform videos—underscoring a bias for shipping end-to-end robotic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics Software Engineer Nanodegree, Robotics Software Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityMaster of Engineering - MEng Robotics, Master of Engineering - MEng Robotics at University of MarylandBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana
English, Hindi, German
Github Skills (4)
optical-flow1
robotics1
kernel1
3d1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akathpal/UMD-CMSC733-ComputerVision
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 3 months
akathpal/Robotics-Planning
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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