CEO & Co-Founder

Sankalp Arora is the CEO & Co-Founder of Gather AI. With 14 years of experience, Sankalp developed safety and sensor planning for the world's first safe autonomous helicopter, funded by DARPA, a project that won the Howard Hughes award, AUVSI Xcellence award and was nominated for the Collier Trophy. He is a recipient of the Qualcomm Innovation fellowship and Swartz Innovation fellowship and has a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Over the past year, Gather AI and Sankalp received several awards, including CB Insights' AI 100, SupplyChainBrain’s Great Supply Chain Partner Awards, Peerless Media’s NextGen Supply Chain Awards, Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top Tech Startup Awards, and the Pittsburgh Inno Fire Awards.

Co-Founder

Worked at the intersection of computer vision, machine learning and robotics for the last 12 years. His work on landing zone and object classification from LiDAR featured VoxNet, the first use of modern Deep Learning techniques to classify point clouds with 3D Convolutional Networks. A recipient of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. A doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon holding an MS.

Co-Founder

Geetesh Dubey has been developing autonomous robotics for the last 11 years. He contributed and later led the development of India’s first autonomous tank and developed one of the world’s fastest fully autonomous camera-only drones. He holds an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon.