Karttikeya Mangalam
Founder & CEO at SigIQ.ai
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarttikeya Mangalam is the Founder & CEO of SigIQ.ai, building AI tutors to democratize personalized 1:1 education and recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30 for consumer tech impact across the US and India. He holds a PhD in AI from UC Berkeley under Prof. Jitendra Malik and has published 40+ papers with over 7,000 citations, blending deep research rigor with product-focused execution. Before founding SigIQ, he contributed to multimodal transformer research at Google DeepMind (Bard/Gemini) and held visiting research roles at Facebook AI and Stanford Vision Lab. His work spans computer vision, trajectory forecasting, and NLP, with international collaborations alongside leaders like Yoshua Bengio and Pascal Fua. A summa cum laude IIT Kanpur alumnus, Karttikeya pairs a strong academic pedigree with hands-on mentorship—having advised 10+ students—and a stealth-stage GitHub presence hinting at focused, high-impact engineering rather than broad open-source signaling. Based in Berkeley, he brings nine years of deep learning research and startup leadership to scaling AI-powered education.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, 4.0 at University of California, BerkeleyIndian Institute of Technology KanpurSemester Exchange, Computer Science, 5.8/6.0, Semester Exchange, Computer Science, 5.8/6.0 at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)Master's degree (Dropout), Artificial Intelligence, Dropped Out, Master's degree (Dropout), Artificial Intelligence, Dropped Out at Stanford University
Github Skills (129)
density-estimation10
causal-discovery10
simulations10
causal10
causal-inference10
face9
causality9
statsmodels9
experimental-design9
python9
bayesian-inference9
simulation9
statistical-inference9
inference9
probabilistic9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karttikeya/karttikeya.github.io
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 100 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
karttikeya/EE558-NT-DS-EPFL-Fall17
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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