Summary
Chayan Sarkar is a Senior Scientist with a decade of experience blending robotics, machine learning, and data visualization to enable natural human–robot interaction and cognitive capability in embodied agents. With a PhD focus on Internet of Things from Delft and research appointments including a recent visiting fellowship at Yale, he translates academic rigor into practical tools for robots to acquire, process, and reason about observed and unobserved behaviors. At Tata Consultancy Services he progressed from Scientist to Senior Scientist, driving applied research that bridges sensors, movement modeling, and behavior understanding. He combines interdisciplinary training from IIT Bombay, TU Berlin, and Delft to tackle real-world perception and knowledge-acquisition problems. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who favors principled methods that remain grounded in deployable systems rather than purely theoretical work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science & Engineering at Jadavpur University
Master's degree, Master's Thesis, Master's degree, Master's Thesis at Technische Universität Berlin
PhD, Internet of Things, PhD, Internet of Things at Delft University of Technology
Hindi, Bengali, English