Bhavana Chandrashekhar is a technical leader in Robotics and Automation, working at Amazon Robotics. Over the past decade Bhavana has designed and built several cutting edge computer-vision based robots at Amazon to automate Amazon's warehouses. As a Software Development Manager she leads a team of Engineers and Scientists to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently in densely packed environments and handle the uncertainty of the real world. As a technologist who has scaled robots in production, she has contributed to the development of innovative approaches in closing the gap between hardware and software integration. Prior to joining Amazon, Bhavana received her Masters in Science in Electrical Engineering from Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California and her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India.
