Ashutosh Saxena is founder and CEO of TorqueAGI, which builds physics-reasoning foundation models that let robots handle warehouse, farm, and factory tasks with minimal training data. He holds a PhD and a master's in computer science from Stanford, where he studied machine learning under Andrew Ng, and a bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur. Saxena previously taught computer science at Cornell and robotics at Stanford, and co-founded Katapult, a fintech company that went public on the Nasdaq, along with casparAI and Brain of Things. He is based in Stanford, California.