Summary
Maulik Bhatt is a doctoral researcher and roboticist in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience building real-time multi-agent motion planning systems that enable autonomous robots to coordinate with humans and other robots. His work blends diffusion models, game theory, stochastic control, and machine learning to produce scalable, robust algorithms for safe multi-robot interaction, and he’s applied those methods in industry internships including motion planning for Amazon’s Proteus autonomous mobile robot. Trained at IIT Bombay and UIUC and now at UC Berkeley for his PhD, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on deployment experience across UAV landing, disaster-response UAVs, and large-scale warehouse robotics. Beyond pure research, he mentors and led technical initiatives early in his career, demonstrating a knack for translating theoretical ideas into practical, real-world systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Science, Science at Gyanmanjari Vidhyapith Bhavnagar
St. Xavier's High School Bhavnagar
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gujarati, Hindi, English