Ashish Kapoor
CEO And Co-founder at General Robotics
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAshish Kapoor is a robotics and AI entrepreneur with nearly two decades of research and leadership experience, now CEO and co-founder of General Robotics building accessible, safety-first general-purpose robot intelligence. Formerly General Manager of Autonomous Systems Research at Microsoft, he led work across machine learning, computer vision and simulation-driven AI (notably contributing to the AirSim simulator) to accelerate real-world robotics development. His PhD in machine learning from MIT underpins a broad interdisciplinary portfolio spanning quantum machine learning, formal methods, HCI and systems research. Early work on emotionally intelligent agents and human-in-the-loop AI informs his emphasis on interpretability, debuggability and humane considerations in autonomous systems. An avid aviator and aircraft builder with FAA commercial and instructor certificates, he brings practical piloting experience to autonomy and safety problems in aerial robotics. Based in Kirkland, WA, he combines deep academic rigor with product-focused execution and a track record of translating simulation research into impactful field applications.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hindi, Assamese, English
Github Skills (23)
simulation10
artificial-intelligence10
robotics10
autopilot10
simulator10
microsoft10
drones10
cross-platform10
reinforcement-learning10
autonomous-vehicles10
self-driving-car10
unreal10
ai10
control-systems10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/AirSim
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 2 years
deep-reinforcement-learningsimulationsimulatorunitysimulator-source
microsoft/AirSim-NeurIPS2019-Drone-Racing
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Drone Racing @ NeurIPS 2019, built on Microsoft AirSim
Contributions:1 comment in 2 months
robotics-simulationneurips-competitionneurips-2019robotics-competitionmicrosoft
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