Arjun Narang

Co-Founder & CTO
Gatik

Arjun Narang is the Co-founder and CTO at Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics. The company delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium duty trucks, focusing on short-haul, B2B logistics for Fortune 500 retailers such as Walmart and Loblaw.Arjun has 12+ years of experience working in the robotics space and AV space with expertise in perception, sensor fusion based SLAM, probabilistic modeling, and multi-task learning. He has recently been named as one of Business Insider’s Self-Driving Power Players of 2022 for his leadership role in the development, strategy, execution, and integration of Gatik's commercial-grade technology for fully driverless medium-duty trucks, establishing multi-year, industry-first technical partnerships and doubling the size of Gatik’s world-class engineering team in the past 12 months.Prior to Gatik, he led the research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, building robots and intelligent systems that are able to operate autonomously in complex and open-ended environments. Arjun has made critical research contributions in the field of autonomous systems at Waseda University (Japan), CUNY (USA), and Carnegie Robotics (USA). Arjun earned his M.S. (with a focus on Robotics and AI) from Purdue University and B.E. from BITS Pilani, India.