Lalitesh Katragadda

Lalitesh Katragadda General Information

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Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda serves as Board Member at BetterPlace. He served as Advisor at Inventus Capital Partners. He served as Board Member at Karkinos. Lalitesh heads India Product Country Head, Google. His interests are in geo, machine learning and robotics. Before joining Google, Lalitesh briefly served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon and went on to found a robotics start-up which was acquired by Google. He has presented papers at and chaired several conferences in Space Robotics, and is responsible for initiating and leading the CMU Lunar Rover program until 1997. At Google, Lalitesh co-founded Google India and along with Krishna Bharat was its founding Co-Center Head for two years. He has started or co-founded several projects at Google including Google Transliteration, Google Finance and several of its internal systems. His most recent innovation is Google Map Maker which he created to help map the world completely. Lalitesh received his Ph.D. from CMU in Robotics and a M.S. from the CMU school of Computer Science. He also holds a M.S. from Stanford University's Design Division and a M.S in Aerospace from Iowa State. His B-Tech was from IIT-Bombay in Aeronautical Engg. He serves as Board Member at Sensara.