Dr Samir Menon

Founder and CEO, Dexterity AI

Speaker

Dr Samir Menon is a founder and CEO of Dexterity, Inc., a company focused on developing autonomous robots with human-like dexterity for applications in logistics, supply chain, and warehousing. Samir holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he developed simulation models and control theory formulations to study the human musculoskeletal system. He is experienced in robot control, dynamics, modeling, simulation, and building robots and haptic interfaces.

While at Stanford, he was awarded two Stanford School of Engineering fellowships and one Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Prior to that, Samir completed his Bachelors in Technology at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, where he was awarded the university's merit scholarship.