People

The researchers, builders, and advisors driving Kumbh Labs.

Kumbh Labs unites innovators from MIT, Project NANDA, Kumbhthon, and frontier commerce rails. Together, we are engineering and deploying autonomous agent systems built for population scale.

Leadership

Core Leadership

The core team directing research, engineering, and field deployments.

Dr. Ramesh Raskar

Dr. Ramesh Raskar

Saurabh Sakalkar

Saurabh Sakalkar

Ankur Shinde

Ankur Shinde

Yash More

Yash More

Advisory Board

Advisors guiding the lab across key pillars

Guiding public safety, digital commerce integration, and scalable AI infrastructure.

Public Safety & Operations
Shri Shantaram Awasare

Shri Shantaram Awasare

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) & President's Medal Awardee

Trustee, Shri Kalaram Temple Panchayat, Nashik

Commerce
Vibhor Jain

Vibhor Jain

Acting CEO, ONDC

Open Network for Digital Commerce

Ketan Bhagwate

Ketan Bhagwate

CEO, MySellarCentral

Merchant Rails & Commerce Ecosystems

Technology
Asif Qamar

Asif Qamar

Founder & CEO, SupportVectors AI Lab

Frontier AI Systems & Distributed Machine Learning

Research & Engineering

Contributors & Working Groups

Key researchers contributing foundational architecture from Project NANDA and collaborating institutions.

Research Fellow

Mahesh Lambe

Research & Systems

Project NANDA

Research Fellow

Gurusha Raskar

Research & Applications

Project NANDA

Research Fellow

Rekha Singhal

Research & Data Architecture

Project NANDA

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Work with Kumbh Labs

We are actively collaborating with researchers, engineering contributors, and industry partners to build and deploy open agent infrastructure.