Siddhartha Srinivasa
Venture Partner at Madrona
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddhartha Srinivasa is a seasoned robotics leader, professor, and venture partner who blends academic rigor with industrial-scale impact in robotics and AI. As the Boeing Endowed Professor at the University of Washington, he advances motion planning, robotic manipulation, and human-robot interaction, applying these advances to real-world platforms like HERB, ADA, and MuSHR while championing open hardware and open-source software to democratize robotics. In industry, he built and led Amazon's Robotics AI organization, growing a global team to tackle manipulation and mobility at scale, and previously founded Berkshire Grey's first wave. He serves on the board of Zordi, advancing autonomous greenhouse robotics, and guides the next wave of founders as a Madrona Venture Partner. His work spans perception, planning, and control, with a strong emphasis on real-world sample efficiency and end-to-end deployment aligned with customer needs. Based in Seattle, he combines deep research with hands-on product leadership across academia, startups, and large tech companies.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanPhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada
Github Skills (35)
robot-control9
robotics9
motion-planning9
pybullet8
ros8
latex8
tex8
dynamics8
kinematics7
optimization7
bibtex6
perception6
python6
simulation6
reinforcement-learning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
siddhss5/siddhss5.github.io
Aug 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
siddhss5/siddweb
Sep 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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