Krishan Rana
Co-founder And CEO at Sydekick Robotics
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishan Rana is a robotics and machine learning entrepreneur with 10 years of experience building physical AI systems that bring human-like dexterity and adaptability to real-world automation. As co-founder and CEO of Sydekick Robotics he leads development of a full-stack platform for deploying agentic robot skills at industrial scale, drawing on postdoctoral research in scalable robot learning from QUT. His background spans deep tech startups and academia, including co-founding a medical imaging venture with two international patents and teaching Masters-level AI courses. Based in Queensland, Australia, he combines hands‑on research, productisation and fundraising experience—having participated in the selective Blackbird Foundry—to translate robot learning advances into deployable, safety‑focused solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, AI Robotics at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)IGCSE/GSE Cambridge, IGCSE/GSE Cambridge at Hillcrest College, Zimbabwe
English, Bantu, Gujarati
Github Skills (34)
robotics10
reinforcement-learning10
monospace10
resume10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
transfer-learning10
simulator7
stylegan7
manipulator6
robot6
clip6
deep-reinforcement-learning5
computer-vision5
deep-learning5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
krishanrana/bcf
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
[NeurIPS 2021 DDM Workshop] A hybrid control strategy for combining deep RL and classical robotic controllers
Contributions:26 commits, 15 pushes in 1 year 3 months
robotics
krishanrana/krishanrana.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 460 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 7 months
jekyll-basedjekylljekyll-themeresume-template
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