Karthik P. N.مشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Karthik P. N. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad). He previously served as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), and completed his Ph.D. and Master of Science (Engineering) at the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, under the guidance of Prof. Rajesh Sundaresan. Earlier, he worked as a Project Assistant in Prof. Chandra R. Murthy's lab at IISc and earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications from R V College of Engineering, Bengaluru. Ph.D., Electrical Communication Engineering, IISc Bengaluru M.Sc. (Engineering), IISc Bengaluru B.E., Electronics and Communications, R V College of Engineering His research focuses on Probability Theory, Detection and Estimation Theory, Markov Decision Processes , and Multi-armed Bandits , with applications in Federated Learning, Differential Privacy, Reinforcement Learning, Information Theory , and Statistics . Recent work explores optimal strategies for best arm identification in restless bandits and privacy-preserving machine learning. He has received high instructor ratings for courses like Stochastic Processes and Programming for AI , and was honored with the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2025 at IIT Hyderabad. His Google Scholar articles highlight advances in 3D point cloud security, railway accident prevention, and vision-language model robustness . Scientific awards include the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2025 and First place in the INAE Kanpur Chapter 100 Seconds Competition (2021) . He collaborates with researchers like Prof. Vincent Y. F. Tan and Prof. Yeow Meng Chee, and has served on technical program committees for conferences such as APWDSIT 2025 and ISIT 2025 . Teaching roles at IIT Hyderabad involve graduate-level courses on Probability and Stochastic Processes , cross-listed with Electrical Engineering.














