Dr. Saxena received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence with Andrew Ng from Stanford University. He went on to become an accomplished professor at Cornell University. He co-founded Katapult (NSDQ: KPLT), Brain of Things ($8 million ARR), and Caspar AI (Top 100 AI Companies by CB Insights). Dr. Saxena's expertise is in Physical AI for Autonomous Systems like robots, cars and healthcare. He has published about a hundred papers in top AI venues like NeurIPS, ICML & CVPR, with numerous best paper awards and 20,000+ citations: SF Business Times 40 Under 40 (2020), TR35 Innovator Award by MIT Technology Review (2018), Eight Innovators to Watch by Smithsonian Institution (2015), NSF Career Award (2013), Microsoft Faculty Fellow (2012), Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2011). Dr. Saxena founded TorqueAGI, which builds foundation models that make robots intelligent and capable of operating in complex, real-world environments.