Sagar Verma
Granular AI | Micropilot. Cambridge, MA.
I am currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Granular AI, where I lead the development of GeoEngine, the world’s first Geospatial MLOps platform. Our go-to-market Geospatial AI product, Inspect.Properties, serves 900+ construction, insurance, and adjuster companies, providing automated roofing, property inspections, and claims documentation using satellite, aerial, and drone imagery.
In addition to my work at Granular AI, I am also focused on open research in robotics and reinforcement learning through Micropilot, a personal open-source initiative to develop learning-based control systems for prosthetics, exoskeletons, and anthropomorphic dexterous robots. Through Micropilot, I aim to open-source AI-driven solutions for human-augmented systems, making advanced robotics more accessible to researchers, developers, and assistive technology innovators.
Background
I did my Ph.D. in 2022 from CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, under Dr. Jean-Christophe Pesquet, focusing on optimization methods for pruning neural networks for edge deployment. As part of my Ph.D., I worked on modeling the dynamics of heavy electrical motors using neural networks, guided by Dr. Marc Castella, Dr. Nicolas Henwood, and Dr. Al-Kassem Jebai. I was funded by ANRT CIFRE and Schneider Electric.
Before that, I was a Research Fellow at IIIT Delhi (2017-2018), where I worked with Dr. Chetan Arora on egocentric video understanding. I was also part of Watson AI team at IBM Research (2017), developing NLQ systems for banking applications.
Current Research Interests
- Anthropomorphic Dexterous Systems
- Reinforcement Learning
- Energy-Efficient Neural Networks
- Optimization for Learning-Based Control