Adarsh Kulkarni is the Head of Automotive Solutions Engineering at Scale AI. He works closely with all of Scale’s customers’ autonomy programs and fosters constant technical collaboration across the industry. Prior to Scale, he spent several years building robots, including autonomous semi trucks and quadrupeds (robot dogs). In particular, he was employee #4 and a core autonomy engineer at Ghost Robotics. In Philadelphia, he was also a member of the UPenn DARPA SubT team, and holds a MS in Robotics from the GRASP Lab. His thesis was in reinforcement learning for terrain-aware trajectory optimization for legged robotic footstep planning.