Siddhartha Banerjee

Siddhartha Banerjee is a Lead Robotics Software Developer at Diligent Robotics, where they build robot assistants that help clinical staff with non-patient-facing tasks so they have more time for patient care. He specializes in human-robot interaction and in robots learning from people. Banerjee completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was instrumental in designing the software architecture for a Fetch mobile manipulator robot to win the FetchIt! Challenge at ICRA 2019. He has used his HRI and machine learning expertise on several robotic platforms, including Moxi, a Fetch mobile manipulator, and the Kinova Jaco2. He has also worked at Microsoft Research and Redfin.