Karan Bania

Karan Bania

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 cast a pretty wide net during my undergrad on a lot of areas (Audio, Vision, Health, Drug Discovery, etc.). Now, I'm more interested in AI safety and AI for Natural Sciences, though I see a lot of potential in DL for most real-time modalities, e.g., sensors, speech, etc.

Outside of work, I love SNL. Somehow, I have an Erdős number of 4 Paul Erdős -> Endre Szemerédi -> Wolfgang Maass -> Anand Subramoney -> Karan Bania.

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This picture was taken at the Moritzburg Castle in Dresden.

Brief Past

I graduated with a B.E. at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, in the CS & IS department. While at BITS, I was also the President of SAiDL, the AI club on campus. I spent an amazing summer in 2024 at Rühr-Universität Bochum, as a DAAD WISE Scholar. Soon after that, I did my undergraduate thesis at Gan.AI, where I worked on Audio ML. I am grateful to have been mentored by several amazing researchers (listed here in no particular order), Ashwin Srinivasan, Tanmay Verlekar, David Kappel, Mark Schöne, Anand Subramoney, Bharath Ramsundar, and Suvrat Bhooshan. I hail from a (small?) town called Jamnagar in western Gujarat.