Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta is a co-founder and chief scientist at GrayMatter Robotics. He also holds a Smith International Professorship in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California and serves as the founding director of the USC Viterbi Center for Advanced Manufacturing.
Dr. Gupta served as a program director for the National Robotics Initiative at the National Science Foundation from September 2012 to September 2014. His research interests are physics-informed artificial intelligence, computational foundations for decision-making, and human-centered robotics and automation. He has published more than 400 technical articles in journals, conference proceedings and edited books. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the Solid Modeling Association (SMA). He serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for Advanced Robotics for the Manufacturing (ARM) Institute and is a member of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board (NMMB).