Karthik Palaniappan
MS CSE @ Georgia Tech / ML @ Xilinx-AMD / B.Tech BSBE @ IIT Kanpur
Atlanta, GA, US
Hey there!
I’m Karthik, an MS CSE graduate from Georgia Tech, with seasoned proficiency in adapting ML paradigms to chip design at Xilinx-AMD (3 patents filed in continual learning, placement parameter ranking, and FPGA compile job-scheduling). Most recently at Georgia Tech, my work on “incentivizing neuro-symbolic reasoning in multimodal foundation models” engendered by AlphaGeometry, DeepSeek-R1, etc. has aided the fortification of my perspicacious aptitude for literature review and effectuation of SoTA compute-constrained post-training techniques in MLLMs.
I’m actively seeking job opportunities in applied ML (across roles in search, recommendations, RAG, LLM fine-tuning, LLM eval, data generation, post-training RL, reasoning, tool-use, etc.). Please feel at liberty to reach out to confer further!
news
| May 15, 2026 | Graduated from Georgia Tech! |
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| Apr 23, 2026 | After much pondering, published a pre-print on neuro-symbolic reasoning via RL to arXiv! |
projects
GNN-RL methodology to optimize routing sequence in custom GPU designs
GRA @ GTCAD Lab, School of ECE, Georgia Tech
publications
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Game-based digital intervention to aid cognitive development in autism spectrum disorderNature Sci. Rep., 2021, associated with IIT Kanpur