Balaji Lakshmanan is the founder and CEO of Geeky Technology & Consulting (www.geekyinc.com), working in Robotics and Embedded System space. He did his Research in Computer Science with specialization in Robotics and Robot Learning at IIT Madras.

He has published two international papers in IEEE conferences and has reviewed a paper for international conference. He also has two provisional international patents to his credit from USPTO. He was one of the fifty selected international students to attend student entrepreneurship summit at Stanford University, USA.

Balaji is passionate about Robotics and has made a number of robots from mini mobile robots to Humanoid robots. His start up makes mobile robotic Products, embedded system solutions and Do it yourself robotic kits for students. He also conducts Robotics workshops in colleges and schools and has covered over 2000 students. He truly believes that robotics can kindle young minds towards creativity and imagination.