Lalitesh katragadda biography
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Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda is the Founder of Indihood.com (Hyperlocal crowdsourcing activating communities), Founder – Swaja Labs (Affordable Smart Devices for internet access); CPO of Avanti Finance (Improving Credit Access for the neediest); and Advisor to the Ministry of Electronics & IT MEITY, Ministry of Finance and the Department of Telecommunication (DOT). He is also the Investor/ Advisor in startups impacting India with transformative technology.
Dr. Katragadda obtained his B.Tech. degree in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1990, M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Design Division – Mechanical Engineering and School of Computer Science from Iowa State University, Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon. He was a Project Lead, CMU-NASA Lunar Rover Initiative.
His contribution to his field as Creator and Engineering Lead, Google Map Maker, has helped create a platform that crowdsourced maps for 187 countries – which had no maps before – even on paper. This brought maps to 3 Billion more, which the UN used in more than 200 disasters, saving about half a million lives, helping governments of all emerging countries plan better and sparking thousands of map-based sta
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Position: Heads Google's research be intended for emerging chains store, which includes India
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Lalitesh Katragadda
Dr. Lalitesh Katragadda is a pioneer in crowdsourcing and building products for the underserved. His creation, Google Map Maker, tripled the world’s digital maps corpus – mapping 3 billion people in 187 countries.
Lalitesh’s robotics startup (Sphereo) was Google’s first acquisition in 2002, after which he co-founded Google India and headed Google India Products until 2014. He now builds population scale platforms for India’s Next Billion, including Avanti for financial inclusion and Indihood, a crowdsourcing platform that empowers communities to solve development challenges. Lalitesh has architected AP’s Fiber Grid, authored India’s national Open API policy, is an advisor to MEITY and core contributor to Digitial India and India Stack.
Lalitesh received his Ph.D. and MS from CMU in Robotics and Computer Science, where he led the CMU Lunar Rover Initiative. He holds an MS, Design Division, Stanford, MS, Aerospace, Iowa State and B-Tech, IIT-Bombay.
He has spoken at TED, INK and The White House.