Summary
Karan Taneja is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Tech focused on building AI tools to scale high-quality education, currently contributing to the Jill Watson project. With nine years of research and industry experience spanning internships at Microsoft, IBM, Sony, and Philips, he blends machine teaching, NLP, and conversational systems with a strong foundation in speech recognition and image processing. He holds a dual B.Tech.+M.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay with a masters focus in Communication and Signal Processing and a CS minor. Karan’s profile reflects a researcher who moves between rigorous academic inquiry and applied industrial research, having published work from his IITB projects and intern roles. Based in Atlanta, he emphasizes practical AI that augments teaching at scale rather than purely theoretical models.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Hindi, English