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Ali Agha

Founder

CEO at Field AI

United States

FoundedField AI

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Alexandra FarmerunlockedAli: together at Field AI (2025–2026)
×5Ali: together at Qualcomm Research
×4Ali: together at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ali: together at Texas A&M University

About

Dr. Ali Agha is the co-founder and CEO of Field AI, a company focused on robotic autonomy and embodied AI, and serves as a Principal Investigator at Caltech. Before founding Field AI, he worked at NASA JPL, where he was Principal Investigator for programs including the DARPA Subterranean Challenge and DARPA RACER, led the CoSTAR team that won the 2020 DARPA Subterranean Challenge, and served as Group Leader of the Robotic Aerial Mobility group. His earlier work includes helping establish Qualcomm's Autonomy division and conducting research at MIT on multi-agent planning under uncertainty, and he has authored over 200 scientific publications and patents.

CEO at Field AI

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Bezos ExpeditionsCanaan PartnersStamford · $500K – $20M checksEmbark VenturesLos AngelesEmerson Collective InvestingPalo Alto · $100K – $1M checksFikaCulver City · $1M – $10M checksGraph VenturesNew York · $5K – $5M checksIntel CapitalSanta Clara · $1M – $20M checksKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checks · since 2025Nearingpoint Venture Partners Inc.TorontoNVenturesSanta ClaraNVIDIASanta Clara · since 2025Play Time VenturesSan FranciscoPrysm CapitalSan FranciscoSamsung NextSan Jose · $100K – $5M checksWIND VenturesSan Francisco Bay AreaYaletown PartnersVancouver · $1.5M – $3.6M checks

Experience

  1. FieldAIFounder and CEOcurrent2023 — present
  2. CaltechPrincipal Investigatorcurrent2018 — present
  3. NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryGroup Leader | Robotics Technologist2016 — 2022Pasadena, California
  4. NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryGroup Leader | Robotics Technologist2016 — 2022
  5. Qualcomm ResearchResearch Staff Engineer2015 — 2016San Diego, California
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Postdoctoral Researcher2013 — 2015

Skills & more

Robotics99Artificial Intelligence53Research99Statistics7Project Management6Computer Vision8Data Science2Machine Learning9Missions1Decision-Making1

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Who is Ali Agha?
Dr. Ali Agha is the co-founder and CEO of Field AI, a company focused on robotic autonomy and embodied AI, and serves as a Principal Investigator at Caltech. Before founding Field AI, he worked at NASA JPL, where he was Principal Investigator for programs including the DARPA Subterranean Challenge and DARPA RACER, led the CoSTAR team that won the 2020 DARPA Subterranean Challenge, and served as Group Leader of the Robotic Aerial Mobility group. His earlier work includes helping establish Qualcomm's Autonomy division and conducting research at MIT on multi-agent planning under uncertainty, and he has authored over 200 scientific publications and patents.
Where does Ali Agha work?
Ali Agha is CEO of Field AI.
What companies did Ali Agha found?
Ali Agha founded Field AI.
Where did Ali Agha go to school?
Ali Agha studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Postdoctoral studies, Robotics); Texas A&M University (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering (Robotics)).

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