University of Pennsylvania
2018 — 2020Master of Science & Engineering
Computer & Information Science
Philadelphia, PA
- Deep Learning
- NLU
- Computer Vision
- Distributed Systems
0→1 engineer · AI × Robotics
I'm Saket Karve — a Senior Software Engineer working at the intersection of AI Robotics Foundation Models. I've helped ship two robots from zero to one: currently building at Dyna Robotics, previously 5+ years on Amazon Astro.
Bridging advanced research and production-grade engineering.
I build the systems that turn machine-learning research into robots that work in the real world. My focus is large-scale ML infrastructure and training optimization — the pipelines, data loaders, and schedulers that let foundation models like VLMs and VAMs train efficiently on massive multi-modal datasets and run reliably on-device.
Today I'm a Member of Technical Staff at Dyna Robotics, where I build the ML infrastructure and training-optimization stack that powers our foundation models — multi-modal Airflow pipelines processing thousands of video-hours per hour, cross-cluster distributed data loaders and intelligent workload schedulers that keep GPU utilization high across the training fleet, plus the on-robot inference path for low-latency trajectory execution.
Before Dyna, I spent five years at Amazon Astro in Lab126. A big part of that work was on the Floor Plan Algorithms team — building the computer-vision and geometry pipelines that generate floor plans from raw SLAM data, deployed to 8,000+ devices in production. I also architected a spatial query engine and DSL for programmatic floor-plan access, and later worked on robot memory, summarization, and LLM-driven action planning for next-generation Astro.
I have an MSE in Computer & Information Science from Penn and a B.Tech in IT from VJTI Mumbai. My published research spans word-embedding debiasing, semantic relatedness, computer vision, and reprogrammable signal-processing hardware.
Six years shipping ML and robotics — click any role to expand.
Floor plans I helped build now power navigation, monitoring, and room-level features in the Amazon Astro app — visible in the official Play Store listing:
Screenshots from the Amazon Astro app on Google Play.
Master of Science & Engineering
Computer & Information Science
Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Technology
Information Technology
Mumbai, India
Peer-reviewed research from Penn and undergrad.
An effective technique using conceptors to debias pre-trained word embeddings against typical human stereotypes (gender, race). Debiased representations evaluated with WEAT and shown useful on downstream NLP tasks.
A novel semantic-relatedness method modifying NGD to integrate WordNet's Brown Corpus information content with Wikipedia occurrence statistics — quantifies relatedness for non-dictionary terms (jargon, proper nouns) and outperforms PMI.
Compared PCA, ICA, and Factor Analysis with four classifiers on the ORL dataset. Factor Analysis achieved up to 100% accuracy with Neural Network, SVM, and Naive Bayes; combining PCA + ICA improved sensitivity to expressions and orientation.
Standalone, reprogrammable hardware emulator on TMS320F28069 DSP that removes host-PC dependency. Custom diagramming interface generates a structured Netlist decoded on-board. Avg compute 80μs, DC — 1.25 kHz bandwidth.
Coverage of the products and companies I've helped build.
Series A led by CRV and First Round Capital, with NVIDIA's NVentures, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures and Salesforce Ventures — valuing Dyna at $600M+.
The first commercial-ready robot foundation model — DYNA-1 executes complex, high-dexterity tasks autonomously for 24+ hours with a 99.4% success rate. A landmark in embodied AI.
Seed round co-led by CRV and First Round Capital to bring embodied AI into the real world with cost-effective robots for businesses of all sizes.
Launch-day coverage of Astro — Amazon's first household robot, developed at Lab126 as an invite-only Day 1 Edition product.
Feature story on Astro's evolution into a home-security companion — patrol modes, mapping, and the vision behind the product I worked on for 5 years.
Sets manager, lights/sounds designer, backstage crew, event volunteer — how I spend my weekends.
I serve as Sets Manager at Naatak — leading set builds end-to-end: coordinating with directors and set designers, hiring contractors, building volunteer teams, planning execution, delivering sets for rehearsals and shows, theater setup and strike. I also design and operate lights & sounds across the season.
Naatak's most complex set build to date — led the entire set operation end-to-end and served on the backstage crew during performances.
Operated lights & sounds.
Co-led digital set design (projection-based), and led lights & sounds.
Full end-to-end set operation — director/designer coordination, contractor management, volunteer team, execution planning, theater setup & strike. Also operated lights.
Contributed to the set build and operated lights.
Contributed to the set build and led lights & sounds design.
Contributed to the set build.
Contributed to the set build and operated lights.
Contributed to the set build and helped with event management.
Worked with CalAA on staged productions and touring plays — sets, lights, and backstage crew across five productions including two India-touring plays.
India touring play — sets and backstage crew.
India touring play — lights.
One-act play — lights design and lead.
One-act play — lights.
Sets building.
Volunteer with ParaShare Entertainments on shows and concerts by popular touring artists from India.
What I get up to when I'm not shipping code.
Made it to the home of cricket — Lord's, London.
Chasing quiet villages and long walks.
Handmade ukadiche modak for Ganeshotsav.
Volunteering & attending Indian classical / Hindustani concerts.
Alaska — glaciers, cold air, no reception.
For work, research collaborations, or just to say hi.