Parag Batavia, Founder of Neya Systems

Parag Batavia is a robotics entrepreneur with a proven track record of starting, leading, growing, and exiting robotics and autonomy companies. His technology focus is on outdoor off-road autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and mission planning.

Parag’s most recent company was Neya Systems, LLC, which he started as the sole founder in 2009. At Neya, we focus on developing robust off-road autonomy for defense and commercial customers. In 2017, after 8 years of continued growth, Parag sold Neya to Applied Research Associates, so that we could have access to the resources and expertise needed to accelerate our capabilities. He continues to work at Neya part time, as the Chief Technology Strategist, where Parah helps to guide Neya’s technology development efforts and lead key business development activities.

Parag is currently an instructor at Carnegie Mellon in the Robotics Institute, where he teaches “How to Build a Robotics Startup” in the Masters in Robotics Systems Development program. He also serves on the Executive Board of the Pittsburgh Robotics Network.