Summary
Manomit Bal is a Director of Software, Robotics, and AI with a decade of hands-on experience building autonomy, robotics, and computer vision systems across startups and research labs. He progressed from research roles at University at Buffalo and early robotics engineering to leading software teams at Discovery Robotics and Vebu, where he helped commercialize automation for food and service industries. Now leading software and AI at Airwai, he blends systems-level product thinking with deep technical expertise in localization, sensor fusion, mapping, and path planning. Known for rapid prototyping and practical, camera-agnostic pose-tracking work (e.g., the Panoptes project), he pairs academic rigor from Georgia Tech with operational experience shipping complex robotic solutions. Based in Los Angeles, he focuses on turning research-grade algorithms into reliable, deployable autonomy platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at University at Buffalo
Hindi, Bengali, English