Kashyap Chitta joins CLS

cls 03 August 2026 News

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kashyap Chitta to the CLS faculty. Kashyap recently joined the ELLIS Institute Tübingen as Principal Investigator and Hector Endowed Fellow. An expert in autonomous systems and physical AI, he will lead a new research group - the Physical AI Lab - dedicated to pushing the boundaries of how machines interact with the physical world.

Alongside his new academic position, Kashyap will continue his work with KE:SAI (Kyutai ELLIS Scalable Autonomous Intelligence gGmbH), a non-profit open science research laboratory he co-founded in May 2026 together with Prof. Andreas Geiger, Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf, Bernhard Jaeger, and Daniel Dauner. By balancing these parallel roles, his work is uniquely positioned to bridge foundational institutional research with agile, real-world applications.