Summary
Pranay Thangeda is an applied scientist with a decade of experience building learning-driven, deployable robotic systems, currently developing and scaling reinforcement and imitation learning solutions for contact-rich bimanual manipulation at Amazon Robotics. With a PhD track at UIUC and research stints at NASA and Corteva, he bridges academic rigor and industrial impact, turning cutting-edge robot learning into production-ready systems. He focuses on optimal planning and robot learning, bringing expertise in both algorithm design and real-world system integration to solve manipulation challenges at Amazon scale. Based in Cambridge, MA, Pranay combines deep research experience with hands-on deployment, often tackling problems where control, perception, and learning must tightly interoperate.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Bachelor of Technology at Mahindra École Centrale
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign