Karthik Narasimhan
Associate Professor
United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Narasimhan is an Associate Professor and research scientist with 11 years of experience building intelligent agents that learn from interaction and textual knowledge to navigate complex, dynamic environments. He blends deep academic training from MIT and IIT Madras with industry-impact work—co-authoring the original GPT paper during a Research Scientist stint at OpenAI—and has led research teams at Sierra before transitioning to an advisory role. His work focuses on grounding language understanding in embodied or simulated environments, marrying reinforcement learning and natural language priors to drive decision-making. Known for bridging foundational research and applied systems, he brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor and product-minded research leadership.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (43)
chronological10
text-based10
extraction10
tree-search10
reinforcement-learning10
datasets10
libtorch10
dialogue-systems10
tetris10
prompting10
sentence-similarity10
arxiv10
information-extraction10
natural-language-processing9
twisted9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karthikncode/MorphoChain
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
karthikncode/text-world-player
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:100 commits, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 1 year
understandinggamesreinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learninglanguage-understanding
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