Kartik Nair

MSML '26 @ CMU | Prev. IITB CSE ’25

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

About

Experience

  • Student Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Working with Prof. Nicholas Boffi on improving guided generation in flow-based networks.

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2 yrs)
    • Undergraduate Student Researcher
      Jan 2024 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Guided by Prof. Abir De and Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti; worked on two projects in the domain of retrieval - (1) Locality Sensitive Hashing for Graph Embeddings, (2) Retrieval for collective query coverage

    • Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2025 - May 2025 · 5 mos

      CS768: Learning with Graphs

    • Deparment Academic Mentor
      Jul 2023 - Apr 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

      Mentored a group of 6 sophomores (co-mentor to another 6) Continuing as a mentor in the ARP programme Also contributed to updating & maintaining CSE DAMP's course resources repository

  • Quantitative Researcher at NK Securities Research
    May 2024 - Jul 2024 · 3 mos

  • Research Intern at Technische Universität Braunschweig
    May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos

    Summer Intern at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Deserno. Worked on breast cancer detection from thermal (IR) imaging

  • Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Jan 2023 - Mar 2023 · 3 mos

    MA 106 - Linear Algebea Conducted tutorial sessions and doubt solving sessions for ~30 students