Dheera Venkatraman
FounderFounder/CTO at Robby Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area
FoundedRobby Technologies · YC
About
Founder and CTO of Robby Technologies, which develops autonomous delivery robots. Venkatraman has expertise in embodied AI, generative AI, robotics, perception, and machine learning.
Founder/CTO at Robby TechnologiesYC S16
Intro paths
YC
Dheera went through Y Combinator (Summer 2016) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Robby Technologies's investors · 2
Co-founders at Robby Technologies
RL
Rui LiFounder/CEO
Experience
- WayvePrincipal Engineercurrent2025 — present
- Stealth AI StartupStartup exploration2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
- AmazonPrincipal Applied Scientist2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Freedom RoboticsRobotics Software Engineer2020 — 2022
- Robby TechnologiesCo-Founder and CTO2016 — 2020Palo Alto, CA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Research Assistant2008 — 2015Cambridge, MA, USA
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Ashdown House Executive Committee2008 — 2010
- MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-CHIEF)Technology Director / Board Member / Founding Team Member2011 — 2013Cambridge, MA, USA
- Tzu Chi FoundationVolunteer & Tzu Ching Officer2009 — 2013
- MIT Sustainability SummitTechnology/Marketing Director2008 — 2013Cambridge, MA, USA
- ETH Zürich, SwitzerlandResearch Intern2007
- TRUMPF-Laser GmbH + Co. KG, Schramberg, GermanyResearch Intern2005
- A-STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, SingaporeResearch Intern2004
Education
- Y CombinatorS16 batch2016
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering2007 — 2014
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree, Electrical Engineering
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Physics
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Skills & more
Text-to-Image GenerationAsian BusinessThermal ImagingDigital ImagingImaging ScienceSoftware DevelopmentComputer ScienceArtificial Neural NetworksDeep LearningNonlinear OpticsComputer VisionHardware
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Project ManagementWeb Application DevelopmentInfrastructureLarge Language Models (LLM)RoboticsMachine Learning AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentGraphic DesignLinux System AdministrationMachine LearningPyTorchPythonLanguages Chinese · English · German · Python
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