Kshitij M. Bhat is a pre-final year undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore,
majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He was a summer research intern at Ati Motors, an
Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) manufacturing startup in Bangalore, India.
He recieved the DRISHTI-CPS CHANAKYA Fellowship in 2021 for the development of a smartphone-based 
autonomous driving module. He was also awarded the prestigious KVPY Fellowship in 2019 by the 
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, initiated to attract exceptionally 
highly motivated students for pursuing a research career in science.