Faculty at School of Engineering

Aakash Sinha

Aakash Sinha

Assistant Professor of Practice

School of Engineering


Contact Information

  • Masters in Robotics(2004),Carnegie Mellon University, GPA 3.7
  • Certification, Tech Commercialization& Entrepreneurship(2013), Stanford Business School
  • Bachelor ofElect. Engg.(2001) from Delhi College of Engg (DCE), Delhi, India. 

Robotics, Innovation, Unmanned Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision

Founder/CEO, Omnipresent Robot Tech (May 2010 - Current)

Chief Intelligent Robots Engineer, iRobot Corporation (Jan 2006 - May 2010)

​​​​​​​Lead Software Engineer, Perceptek-Lockheed-Martin (Dec 2003 - Dec 2005)

​​​​​​​Graduate Research Scholar, National Robotics Engg Consortium, CMU (Sept 2002 - Dec 2003)

  • DSTLockheed MartinStanford Innovation (IIGP) Gold Medal Winner 2013
  • MIT TR 2013 ( top innovators under the aile of 35)
  • US Defense, DARPA Robotics Grand Challenge 2005 finalist Medal
  • Invited Robotics Institute Seminar Speaker. Carnee;je Mellon University
  • Invited Speaker, Tedx talk "Robots for India"
  • Invited Speaker, Global India Business Meeting, Liverpool, 2014
  • CNN Tndja Posjtjve Award 2013
  • Enterprise Asia Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2012
  • iRobot, outstanding employee Rock Award 2007
  • Bhart Gaurv Innovator Award, given by Union Minister
  • Outstanding Contribution in and Tech. award, All Journalist Association, India, 2010
  • 1st Prize at IEEE National level in hardware contest Troika2001
  • Over 15 International Robotics related publications

  • Research and development of Ro-boat: an autonomous river cleaning robot. Aakash Sinha ; Prashant Bhardwaj ; Bipul Vaibhav; Noor Mohommad. Proc. SPIE 9025, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXXI: Algorithms and Techniques, 90250Q (February 3, 2014); doi:10.1117 /12.2037898
  • Rgator: A Low-cost Multi-utility Autonomous Vehicle with Adaptive Sweep LIDAR System. In Proceedings of the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems Asia Pacific. Melbourne, Australia, October 2007. 
  • SimUGV: a general purpose simulator for analyzing energy dynamics and locomotion for unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), A. K. Sinha, PercepTek, Inc.; J. Vashishtha, Colorado School of Mines - Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6228-22 "Defense and Security Symposium ", Orlando, 2006.
  • Intelligent Vehicles Safety Technologies 1 -DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, Technical Papers of selected finalists Grand Challenge'05. 
  • Energy Driven Design Choices for Unmanned Ground Vehicles -- Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6006, "Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXIII: Algorithms, Techniques and Active Vision", Boston, Oct 2005
  • Effective Design Choices for Skid Steering Unmanned Ground Vehicles -- Proceedings of SPIE Volume 5609, "Mobile Robots XVII", Philadelphia ,Oct 2004
  • Analytical Model for maximizing Performance of a Six Wheeled Skid Steering Robotic Vehicle,Master's Thesis Report, CMU Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, Sept 2003 
  • UGCV Design Analysis Simulator Tool, CMU, National Robotics Engg. Consortium, Tech Report, Aug 2003 
  • An extended smart utilization medium access control (ESU-MAC) protocol for ad-hoc wireless systems - art. no. 62480S Jun 2006 · Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering