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 (40)
tree-search10
reinforcement-learning10
libtorch10
language-understanding10
information-extraction10
text-based9
natural-language-processing9
morphological-analysis9
prompting9
webserver9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
webclient8
django8
twisted8
mux8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karthikncode/DeepRL-InformationExtraction
Dec 2015 - Jun 2018
Code for the paper "Improving Information Extraction by Acquiring External Evidence with Reinforcement Learning" http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07954
Contributions:124 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 6 months
information-extractionreinforcement-learning
karthikncode/text-world-player
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Framework and model code for the paper "Language Understanding for Text-based Games using Deep Reinforcement Learning", EMNLP 2015
Contributions:100 commits, 1 PR, 59 pushes in 1 year
deep-reinforcement-learninglanguage-understanding
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