Parag Batavia

Parag Batavia is a seasoned robotics entrepreneur with a successful history of establishing, managing, expanding, and selling robotics and autonomy enterprises.

His expertise lies in outdoor off-road autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and mission planning technologies. He adopts a startup and entrepreneurial mindset, emphasizing bootstrapping and creating revenue-generating products and services, in addition to his passion for mentoring and teaching.

The pinnacle of his entrepreneurial journey was Neya Systems, LLC, founded in 2009, where he fostered the growth of a top-notch team specializing in off-road autonomy and multi-robot collaboration solutions, culminating in the company's acquisition in 2017.

Parag's key strengths revolve around mobile robotics, autonomy, launching new ventures, bootstrapping, mentoring, and educating the next generation of innovators.

His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA in Business Administration from Drexel University - College of Business and Administration, and a BS in Computer Engineering / Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Throughout his career, Parag Batavia has been affiliated with several notable organizations, such as Neya Systems, LLC, Pittsburgh Robotics Network, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, ARA, National Advanced Mobility Consortium, Applied Perception, Foster-Miller, Inc., and NREC, holding key roles like Founder, Chief Technology Strategist, Adjunct Faculty, President, Director of Projects and Ops, Commercialization Specialist, and Chief Scientist.