Lalitesh K Katragadda Activity Page

I have this nasty habit of doing lots of things. So this web page captures some of those (good & bad) times. This is in honor of all the really WOW people that i came across in the course of these activities. My apologies to all those that I lost track of. This is to say that you are truly remembered and welcome to give me a ping anytime.

• Here are all the schools i ever attended. Have degrees each of them. Never regretted it, more like thankful.
• A mid-summer with Bosch, Managing Engineering Design and Development
• In late summer of 1993 (July), I started thinking about what i should do for my Ph.D. At that point i was involved in Dante II, and even wrote a simulator for it. To make a long story short, the project we created was the Lunar Rover Initiative. This project has since been the center of my attention. Loads of fun to put a robot on the Moon, wether or not it works out is to be seen. The conversation had started in June, with LunaCorp visiting CMU with the idea of a joint lunar mission. It finally crystallized into a presentation of the vision and it diverted the course of the CMU planetary robotics community to a brand new robot and a completely new focus. We finally went public with a press conference that Feb. The rest you can read.
• In the summer-fall 1992, me and a handful of co-Indians led by Venkat, prodded by the imbalanced representation of India in the US media and Congress started what is regarded as the first Internet lobbying organization India Net. We started with about 100 members and now have 10000. I quit after about two years, but boy did we have fun. Some of the people who run this organization are some of the most enthusiastic and dedicated people you will meet.