Bharath Sankaran is a Software Engineering Manager and roboticist with 13 years of experience building ML, computer vision and robotics products from research to commercial scale. He has led R&D and product teams—scaling engineering orgs to 25+ people and driving a startup from inception to €1M ARR while securing major grants and industry awards. A PhD from USC with visiting work at Max Planck and publications across top conferences, he combines deep academic contributions (patents and nominated best-paper work) with hands-on systems delivery at companies like ANYbotics and Meta RL. He co-founded Naska.AI and helped win TechCrunch Disrupt and Nvidia/AWS startup programs, demonstrating both entrepreneurial instinct and product-market traction. Based in Zurich, he’s equally comfortable shipping cloud-based enterprise SaaS and low-level manipulation and perception stacks for robots, a blend that helps bridge lab breakthroughs to deployable systems. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning advanced 3D vision and interactive perception research into production-grade AI products for challenging real-world environments.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Aerospace Engineering at University of Maryland
Master of Science - MS, Robotics, Master of Science - MS, Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
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