Headline

CTO @Dilaton | Autonomy, decision systems under uncertainty. 10 years building AI that knows when not to act, from GPS-denied navigation to agentic systems.

About

Co-founder, Dilaton Dilaton is an embodied AI company working in high stakes, defense environments. To begin with we have designed autonomous systems that operates in GPS-denied and communication-degraded environments. productized, procured and used on ground. Business wise we have done 0-1, and are in later 1-10 stage, with early signs of 10-100. What sets us as a reliable company with a technical moat is our human capital which acts as our spine, and who has delivered time and again in adversaries just like our drones :D Key Recognitions for Dilaton 1. Recognized under Reliance Jio’s Gen-Next program, 2025 2.Winners at the University of Cambridge AI Olympics, 2019 3. Top 137 deep-tech teams, Bharat Innovates 2026 At Dilaton we are proudly building the future of combat and robotics, where intelligence survives contact with reality. For catching me up at coffee: DM Thank You 🙏

Location

Gurugram

Work experience

Chief Technology Officer at Dilaton, Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos, Gurugram, Every autonomous system today is built on a quiet assumption: it can phone home. GPS for position, a radio link for command. Strip those away and a $60,000 military drone becomes a falling object with a camera. Jamming it costs the adversary fifty dollars. We saw that asymmetry six years ago and asked the only first-principles question it permits: if the link is the vulnerability, the intelligence must live on the machine. That's Dilaton. Not a better drone, the layer of cognition that makes any drone survivable in contested airspace. Perception and decision-making fully onboard, indigenous down to the stack, light enough for any airframe. In total signal denial, our systems fly the way a pilot flies when instruments fail: by understanding space, not receiving coordinates. Zero-to-one is done, the hard way: built, procured, operating in the field.

Rare time and mission at Department Of Science And Technology (Dst), Jun 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos, IIT Kanpur, Genesis of Team Dilaton

Chief Data Scientist at Olbrain, Feb 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Breakthroughs, so many of them in pattern recognizing AI, technically enriching discussions, and dreaming big became our DNA. made friends, YC rejections, developed resilience to survive without salary as drip. Few long lasting wins: recognized as a part of team, amongst top 72 research teams, working on AGI globally with notable mentions of team Olbrain beside Open AI, Microsoft AI, Google Brain in GCRI survey and its references in wikipedia page on AGI link :- https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/055_agi-2020.pdf

Business Analyst at HSBC, Jun 2014 - Dec 2014 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed the courage to come out of corporate culture and try hands on real life problem understanding

Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, May 2011 - Jul 2011 · 3 mos, Thiruvananthapuram Area, India, hang-over of differential calculas brought me to this internshsip. made friends, survived without mattress and pillows at hostel. found a caring mentor in form of Manil T Mohan, now a professor at IIT Roorkee. https://web-japps.ias.ac.in:8443/srfp2011/SelectedList.jsp?sub=Mat

Education

Mathematics and Computing, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur