ABOUT
Gagandeep Reehal is co-founder & CEO of Minus Zero, building next generation foundational models for autonomous driving inspired by human cognition.
He has a strong research inclination towards embodied AI, world models, AI interpretability, deep reinforcement learning and active inference.
Minus Zero is accelerating the world's transition to autonomous driving enabling it with embodied AI. Moving away from the robotics paradigm, there are pioneering an re-imagined approach to AV 2.0 with nature-inspired AI - foundational world models inspired from human brain. They became the first company to demonstrate autonomous driving on public roads in India
He has three book publications to his credit, has mentored/judged 65+ developer events worldwide, and has spoken at multiple conferences around AI & robotics.
PUBLICATIONS
& PATENTS
Burial amidst Gods: a cold mess
Poetry Collection - 2021
a coffee date
Fiction - 2019
Mother
Novel - 2019
System & method for determining dynamics of objects in environment
Patent - Granted (India, 2023)
NOTABLE
ENGAGEMENTS
2023 - India
TEDxBNMIT
Speaker
"Self-driving Cars & the Human Brain: The missing link to Intelligence"
2023 - India
Mint AI Summit
Keynote Speaker
2023 - India
11th International Big Data and Al Conference, IIIT Delhi
Keynote Speaker & Panelist
2023 - Dubai
Dubai World Congress for Self-Driving Transport
Speaker
"Nature-inspired AI: Towards embodied intelligence and autonomy"
2023 - India
G20 India YEA
Panelist
2022 - USA
12th Autonomous Vehicles Detroit 2022
Keynote Speaker
2022 - France
Vivatech Paris
Speaker
and multiple other conferences, hackathons and events.
SPECIAL MENTIONS
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Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia - 2024 by Forbes Asia
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E&T Innovation Award 2021 - Young Pioneer by The IET (Global Finalist)
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NASSCOM AI Gamechangers Award 2021 (Special Mention)
CONTACT
For inviting me for speaking or other engagements, write to contact@gagandeepreehal.com
For applying to Minus Zero, please write to careers@minuszero.in