P. N. Karthik
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad). Prior to this, I was a Research Fellow in the Institute of Data Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I worked alongside Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan. Prior to joining NUS, I obtained the Ph.D. and Master of Science (Engineering) dual degree from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan. Much earlier to joining the dual degree programme, I worked as a Project Assistant in Prof. Chandra R. Murthy's lab at IISc, where I was introduced to the world of research. I hold a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
Multi-armed bandits, federated learning, differential privacy, reinforcement learning, information theory, statistics
Received an instructor rating of 4.95/5.0 for the course AI5090: Stochastic Processes (Theory and Applications).
Received an instructor rating of 4.74/5.0 for the course AI1013: Programming for AI.
My sincere thanks to all students who provided generous feedback on my instruction.
Lectures for the course on Stochastic Processes come to an end.
My sincere thanks and best wishes to all students who were part of the course.
My sincere thanks also to the TA for her generous support in evaluating the quizzes.
Lectures for the course on Programming for AI come to an end.
My sincere thanks and best wishes to all students who were part of the course, and to the TAs who inspired the students by presenting their works.
My sincere thanks to all the TAs for their generous support in evaluating the course assignments.
Honoured to receive the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2025 from IIT Hyderabad!
I am immensely grateful to the incredible teachers who have shaped my learning since childhood and instilled in me the passion for teaching.
More power to students who form the backbone of academia.
Invited to serve as a TPC member for the 2025 Asia Pacific Workshop on Data Science and Information Theory (APWDSIT 2025)!
Special thanks to Vincent Tan for the kind invitation.
Co-teaching a 2-credit course on Programming for AI with Dr. Aravind Reddy.
See the course webpage for more details.
Promoted from Assistant Professor Gr-II to Assistant Professor Gr-I.
Heartfelt gratitude to all my mentors and colleagues who have supported me thus far!
Paper on Optimal Multi-Objective Best Arm Identification with Fixed Confidence accepted to AISTATS 2025!
Joint work with Chen Zhirui, Yeow Meng Chee, and Vincent Y. F. Tan.
Congratulations to all the co-authors!
Invited to serve as a TPC member for ISIT 2025!
Special thanks to Vincent Tan for the kind invitation.
Teaching a 3-credit course on Stochastic Processes during Jan-Apr 2025.
Visit the course webpage for more details.
Received an instructor rating of 4.84/5.0 for the course AI5030: Probability and Stochastic Processes.
Received an instructor rating of 4.8/5.0 for the course CS6660: Mathematical Foundations of Data Science.
A big shout-out to all students who patiently listened to my endless musings on probability.
My heartfelt thanks to all the teaching assistants for pouring their heart into the course and helping with the course evaluation.