Karan Bania

Karan Bania

I'm an MS student at CMU in the Machine Learning Department, very lucky to be working with 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.

Outside of work, I love watching SNL (and now also SNL UK) Somehow, I have an Erdős number of 4 Paul Erdős -> Endre Szemerédi -> Wolfgang Maass -> Anand Subramoney -> Karan Bania.

Email: kbania + at + cs + dot + cmu + dot + edu

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 in 2025. While at BITS, I was the President of SAiDL, the AI club on campus. I also 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.