NYU

Adi Gottumukkala

Sr. Director, Corporate Engagement · New York University

Adi Gottumukkala is affiliated with New York University in New York. They completed their education at University of Groningen from 2008-2013, designing and developing Pd catalysts for carbon-carbon bond formation, inventing Palladium asymmetric catalysts for all-carbon quaternary stereocenter synthesis, and gaining experience with asymmetric N-Heterocyclic carbenes synthesis, with 5 publications. Adi engages with recent grads and students, particularly at NYU Stern School of Business and School of Professional Studies, and follows deep tech physics conferences.

Ben Riviere

Assistant Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Benjamin (Ben) Riviere is an Assistant Professor at NYU with a dual appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He leads the Riviere Robot Lab, where his research focuses on integrating machine learning models and real-time optimization, with a special application focus on space robotics. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Caltech.

Bilal Sher

CEO & Co-founder · Building Diagnostic Robotics

Bilal Sher is CEO & Co-founder of Building Diagnostic Robotics, which uses robotic technology and artificial intelligence to locate leaks and evaluate building conditions, performance, and health. The startup originated from his master's work in NYU Tandon’s AI4CE lab under Professor Chen Feng, resulting in EASEEBot, a drone that climbs building facades to deploy cameras for identifying air leaks, defects, and intrusions. EASEEBot received awards like the NSF Civic Innovation Challenge and funding from NSF I-Corp.

Chen Feng

Institute Associate Professor, Robotics · New York University

Chen Feng is an Institute Associate Professor at New York University, Director of the AI4CE Lab, and Founding Co-Director of the NYU Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence (CREO). His research focuses on active and collaborative robot perception and robot learning to address multidisciplinary, use-inspired challenges in construction, manufacturing, and transportation. He is an active contributor to the AI and robotics communities, such as CVPR, IEEE RA-L, and ICRA.

Chris Clark

Director of Experiential Learning and Industry Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Dr. Christopher Clark is the Director of Experiential Learning and Industry Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Before joining NYU, he worked at Apple for 8 years where he led research teams in the areas of robotics and autonomous systems. Clark also spent 17 years as a Professor at various institutions including Harvey Mudd College where he served as the Associate Dean of Research and Experiential Learning.

Eugene Vinitsky

Assistant Professor · New York University

I'm an Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon based in Civil Engineering and an affiliation with Computer Science. I received my PhD in control and reinforcement learning from UC Berkeley with Alexandre Bayen. My research goal is to see complex, human-like behavior emerge from unsupervised interaction between groups of learning agents, applied to robotics and transportation through multi-agent RL.

Jamie Palmer

CTO & CoFounder · Icarus Robotics

Jon Miller Schwartz

CEO & Cofounder · Ultra

Two-time entrepreneur and lifelong engineer, focused on building great products. Activity highlights include measuring automation in intelligence, AI robots in customer settings, and partnerships like Manifest.eco.

Juan de Pablo

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, New York University; Executive Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Dr. Juan de Pablo is the University’s inaugural Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology, and the Executive Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He leads cross-University, multidisciplinary, and globally focused efforts to accelerate the momentum of NYU’s vast science and technology enterprise for the purposes of solving humanity’s largest challenges. Dovetailing with those efforts, de Pablo steers Tandon’s engineering research and education to play a central role in addressing a multitude of areas, from human health, to advances in materials discovery, to the sustainability of the planet.

Lilly Kolfer

VP Growth · Wandercraft

Ludovic Righetti

Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Ludovic Righetti is jointly appointed in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University. He co-created and co-directs the Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, and leads the Machines in Motion Laboratory, where his research focuses on the planning and control of movements for autonomous robots, with emphasis on legged locomotion and manipulation. He is broadly interested in decision-making, automatic control, optimization, applied dynamical systems, machine learning for physical systems, and societal implications.

Nana Obayashi

Assistant Professor · NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Nana Obayashi is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University. Her expertise lies in design optimization of robots that exploit soft body-fluid interactions, a topic that sits at the intersection of robotics and aerospace engineering. Her focus is on developing bio-inspired soft robots that interact with and exploit the fluids to exhibit intelligent behaviors as well as be robust and efficient in the natural environment, accomplished through novel robotic platforms and methods like large-scale experimentation, data-driven design, and fluids analysis.

Nina Gray

Vice Provost for Research (Interim) · New York University

Tyler Habowski

CEO & Cofounder · Kyber Labs