Ankit Goyal

Ankit Goyal is Head of AI at Proception, a robotics startup building robot hands and data-collection gloves, where he leads the dexterous manipulation learning stack. He previously spent four years as a Research Scientist and Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA's Robotics Research Lab in Seattle. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, advised by Prof. Jia Deng, and is known for his work on robot learning, manipulation policies, and 3D perception, including projects such as VLA-0, HAMSTER, and ManiFlow. He is also an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan's Robotics Department starting Fall 2027.