Deepak Pathak
Co-founder & CEO, Skild AI
Deepak Pathak is Co-Founder & CEO of Skild AI and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is developing a general-purpose brain for robotics with a long-term goal of AGI grounded in the physical world. Deepak is known for pioneering contributions to AI, including self-supervised learning, artificial curiosity, and sim2real adaptation for robot learning and has received several prestigious honors, including MIT TR 35under35, ONR Young Investigator Award, Sloan Fellow, Okawa Fellow, IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards at top Robotics/ML conferences. Earlier, he received his Ph.D. in AI from UC Berkeley and his Bachelor’s from IIT Kanpur with a Gold Medal in Computer Science.