Email: kbania [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu
I'm an MS student at CMU in the Machine Learning Department, very lucky to be advised by Zico Kolter and Yash Savani. I'm broadly interested in Deep Learning and have explored a lot of areas (Audio, Vision, Health, Drug Discovery, etc.) during my undergrad. Right now, I'm focusing on AI (LLM) safety and AI for Natural Sciences.
Somehow, I have an Erdős number of 4 Paul Erdős -> Endre Szemerédi -> Wolfgang Maass -> Anand Subramoney -> Karan Bania.[GitHub] [LinkedIn] [CV] [résumé] [Google Scholar] [etc]
I graduated with a B.E. at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, in the CS & IS department where I was truly fortunate to have been mentored by Ashwin Srinivasan and Tanmay Verlekar. While at BITS, I was also the President of SAiDL, the AI club on campus. I spent an amazing summer in 2024 at Rühr-Universitat Bochum, as a DAAD WISE Scholar, where I got to work with even more amazing people: David Kappel, Mark Schöne and Anand Subramoney. More recently, I finished my undergraduate thesis at Gan.AI, where I worked on Audio ML, I am grateful to have been advised by Suvrat Bhooshan. I hail from a (small?) town called Jamnagar in western Gujarat.
"It is easy to build a system that works, but it is really hard to build one that doesn't fail."