Manu Sharma
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CEO
United States
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Jobs
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CEO & Co-founderLabelboxMar 2018 - Current (8 years 8 months)Frontier data infrastructure.
Reasoning | Agents | Multimodal | Evals- Product ManagerPlanetJul 2017 - Mar 2018 (9 months)Planet has the largest fleet of satellites in orbit and photographs the entire earth every single day. Manu helped build Planet's analytics platform from an idea to a beta launch.
- Product ManagerDroneDeployMar 2014 - Jun 2017 (3 years 4 months)Manu was one of the earliest people to recognize the value of drones and joined DroneDeploy as a second full-time employee. Over the course of 3.5 years, he held multiple roles within the company. Most notably, he helped build and scale the App Market from the ground up.
- Drone EngineerDroneDeployMar 2014 - Mar 2015 (1 year 1 month)
- AFounder & CEOArdulab Infinity AerospaceOct 2012 - Mar 2014 (1 year 6 months)Created Ardulab - an open-source research lab for conducting science experiments aboard the International Space Station.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1175 - Student @ Graduate Studies Program 2012Singularity UniversityJun 2012 - Sep 2012 (4 months)
- NFounder & CEONuovo WindSep 2011 - Sep 2012 (1 year 1 month)Solar & vertical axis wind turbines for residential power production
- InternDubai AirportsMay 2011 - Aug 2011 (4 months)Built system to automatically record aircraft movements from 3 different radars within 200 miles of Dubai Airport, replacing the manual work of 10 people.
Education
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- Master's Degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical EngineeringStanford UniversityJan 2012 - Jan 2014 (2 years 1 month)Algorithms & industrial design
- Bachelors of Science, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical EngineeringEmbryRiddle Aeronautical UniversityJan 2008 - Jan 2011 (3 years 1 month)Genetic algorithms, neural networks & aerodynamics
Projects (professional or personal)
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- VVision Based Drone LandingJan 2014 - Current (12 years 10 months)Developed a prototype of precision landing using Open CV library and feeding new location estimated by GPS and image analysis as pseudo corrected GPS message to autopilot
- AArchitecture of phased array antenna system for low earth orbit satellitesJan 2014 - Current (12 years 10 months)Initial design and selection of feed elements for S and X band phased array antenna for global coverage of communications with low earth orbiting satellite constellation
- AAA241X: Design, Construction and Testing of Autonomous AircraftOct 2013 - Current (13 years 1 month)Designed, built and helped flight test the plane from foam. Performed preliminary aircraft design calculations (drag analysis, weight balance, motor and propeller selection, calculation of stability and control derivatives).
- IInfinity II: Preliminary design of light sport canard aircraftApr 2011 - Current (15 years 7 months)Capstone project at Embry-Riddle. Conducted drag analysis, weight distributing, airfoil selection, wing design and calculation of stability derivatives. Designed and modeled the aircraft in SolidWorks and performed basic CFD analysis in Fluent
- FFLEXFOIL: Bio-inspired intelligent flight control system using artificial neural networks for wing morphingConducted research and developed bio-inspired intelligent flight control system using artificial neural networks for wing morphing. Performed detailed CFD analysis in Fluent to compare morphed airfoils and traditional high lift devices. (See articles / TEDx talk for more information).
- LLaunched a balloon to photograph near space @100,000 ft for less than $200Jan 2010 - Feb 2010 (2 months)Lead the Infinity team which became one of the first teams in the world to photograph stars and planets in daylight by launching a camera to the near-space.