Nitish Srivastava

Co-Founder and CTO at Vayu Robotics, ML for Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Nitish Srivastava is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Vayu Robotics, a position he has held since February 2022. Based in Palo Alto, California, he specializes in machine learning, deep networks, and artificial intelligence. His educational background includes a Doctorate in Machine Learning from the University of Toronto, where he worked under renowned researchers Geoffrey Hinton and Ruslan Salakhutdinov.

Professional Experience

Vayu Robotics: Co-Founder and CTO (February 2022 - Present)
Apple:
- Staff Research Scientist - Machine Learning (November 2018 - February 2022)
- Staff ML Engineer (February 2017 - November 2018)
Clarevision Research: Co-Founder (February 2015 - September 2016; acquired by Apple)
Research Internships:
- Google Brain Team (2013)
- Android Speech Recognition Team at Google (2012)
- Microsoft Research (2010)

Education

PhD in Machine Learning, University of Toronto (2013-2016)
MS in Computer Science, University of Toronto (2011-2013)
BTech in Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (2007-2011)

Nitish has contributed significantly to areas like self-supervised learning and reinforcement learning for embodied agents during his tenure at Apple. His work has also focused on computer vision models for autonomous driving and real-time object detection.1