Karthik Mahesh Varadarajan FRAS, AKC

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Career Summary

Academically and professionally accomplished senior Robotics, Cognitive Vision and Data Sciences AI research leader and systems developer with allied managerial and hands-on technical skills. Over 14 years of core industry experience (+ over 8.5 years of experience in academia) in US, EU and Asia, working on inter-continental, multi-national, intra-national, civilian and defense projects with large corporations, such as Omron, Nvidia, Qualcomm; startups in cutting edge robotics, as well as, with agencies such as EU Commission, Austrian FFG, EURASIA Pacific Uninet, NASA, DoD etc., generating grant revenue over USD 3 million, leading groups in the capacity of Research Lead/ Product Owner/ Co-Principal Investigator on million dollar projects. Holds 20+ degrees, 10+ research grant awards, 5+ other awards, 10+ theses, 2 chairing roles, 50+ reviewing roles, 15+ professional memberships, 90+ publications in conferences, journals, workshops, patents, contributions to 50+ projects. 

Areas of Research

Robotics, Computer Vision, Vision-Language-Action (VLA), Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), 3D Reconstruction and View Synthesis, Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), Humanoids, Fixed and Articulated Robots, Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV), Psychophysics, Neuroscience, Brain Theory and Cognitive Vision, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Real-time Image, Video, Speech, Immersive Audio processing & Tracking systems, Bio-inspired Video-Indexing & Retrieval, Bio-inspired 3D Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling and Visualization, Bio-medical Image Processing, Multimedia Data Compression, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, Embedded Multimedia System Design, Wireless Sensor Networks, Dynamic Network Topology Modeling, Non-Linear and Robust Control, Optimization, Random Graphs, Additive and Extremal Combinatorics, Reinforcement Learning, Data Sciences for Astrophysics, Epidemiology and Bioinformatics, Reconstructions for Archaeology  

Contact Availability

Senior Technical or Management Roles in Robotics, Computer Vision, Data Sciences, AI and ML, as well as Inter-disciplinary Cutting Edge Research and Development Roles