Date and Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Vaibhav Ghadiok
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Hayden AI
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Speaker Biography
Vaibhav Ghadiok is an engineering leader with a track record of productizing robotics technology. He has over a decade of experience in AI, 3D perception using cameras, LiDARs & Radars and localization & mapping.
Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer at Hayden AI where he has architected the first autonomous traffic management platform to make our cities more efficient, equitable, and sustainable.
Previously, he cofounded a company developing navigation solutions with commercially available radars that matched the performance of LiDAR-based navigation. At Nauto, he conceptualized, spearheaded and delivered a real-time collaborative HD mapping system for highly automated driving to one of the largest automotive OEMs in the world.
15 years ago, he designed one of the first visually-guided autonomous drones demonstrating the first instance of autonomous aerial manipulation in the world. He has built robots that fly, climb stairs, autonomously navigate indoors, interact with humans, and dock with spacecrafts.
Vaibhav has published and served as a referee for top journals and conferences in robotics, controls and navigation.
