Dr. Ali Agha is the Founder and CEO of FieldAI, where he pioneers the use of artificial intelligence to unlock the potential of robots operating autonomously in complex, real-world environments. Ali has nearly two decades of experience leading cutting-edge autonomy projects. Prior to founding FieldAI, he was a Principal Investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he led NASA’s team participating in DARPA Subterranean Challenge, DARPA RACER (self-driving off-road cars), NASA’s Autonomous Mars Cave Exploration, and Coordinated Autonomy for Prototype Mars Helicopter-Rover. He led a team from multiple international institutions that won the Urban phase of the 2020 DARPA Challenge, which focused on exploring unknown complex urban environments.