Quick Info
| Profession | Perception Engineer |
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| Nationality | American |
| Date of Birth | 13/12/1995 |
| Age | 30 years |
| Birthplace | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
Latest News about Vibhav Altekar
10/06/2026
Vibhav Altekar was identified as the co-founder and CTO of Saronic Technologies behind the autonomous surface vessel 'Corsair' that rescued two US Army Apache helicopter crew members near the Strait of Hormuz after their aircraft went down. This mission marked the first known instance of the US military using an autonomous surface vessel to rescue personnel at sea, with the unmanned vessel successfully recovering the military personnel.
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Bio/Wiki
| Full Name | Vibhav Satsheel Altekar |
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| Famous for | Designing the drone ship that saved US soldiers in Hormuz |
Physical Stats & More
| Height | 5' 10" (178 cm) | ||||||
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| Weight | 65 Kg (143 lbs) | ||||||
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| Eye Colour | Black | ||||||
| Hair Colour | Black |
Educational Qualification(s)
| School | Lynbrook High School |
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| College/University | University of California, Davis |
| Educational Qualification | Graduate in Electrical Engineering |
Family
| Father | Satsheel Altekar |
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Career
| Served as a machine learning researcher at UC Davis in bioinformatics (2015-2017) | |
| Worked as an engineering intern at Twitter (January 2017) | |
| Joined Juicero as an embedded systems intern (2017) | |
| Worked as a data engineering intern at Synthego Corporation (2017) | |
| Embedded DSP engineer at Intel Corporation (2016) | |
| Engineering Fellow at Kleiner Perkins (2017-2018) | |
| Part of the investment team at 8VC (2018) | |
| Machine learning engineer at Anduril Industries (2018-2022) | |
| Head of the perception team at Anduril (2020-2022) | |
| Instructor for an introductory course in AI at UNEX, UCLA (2020-2021) | |
| Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Saronic Technologies (2022-present) |
Social Media
| https://www.facebook.com/vibhavaltekar | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/vibhavaltekar/ |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| 1. Born in Pune, India, later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. | |
| 2. Had a passion for cricket from an early age and played for the North West Region. | |
| 3. Conducted research on a micro-fabricated oral drug delivery device in school. | |
| 4. Won several awards for his science and engineering projects. |