Summary
Pranav Deo is a robotics researcher and AI engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a five-year focus on AI, including three years professionally building perception and learning systems for dexterous robots at Honda R&D in Japan. He specializes in computer vision, reinforcement learning, and hybrid learning pipelines—shipping sim-to-real training, real-time teleoperation, and multi-camera 6D pose solutions for dynamic object manipulation. Earlier leadership on India’s first student self-driving car gave him end-to-end autonomy experience from stereo perception and localization to control and team management. Pranav combines strong academic foundations from IIT Bombay (with minors in AI and CS) with practical deployment experience on real hardware, and he’s known for turning advanced research into robust, production-ready robotics systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Marathi, Japanese