My Experience and Achievements
Here you’ll find details about my work experiences, awards I have received, and publications among other things I have accomplished
Year | Curriculum | Institute | Percentage |
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2014 | IMSc Physics | IIT Roorkee | CGPA:6.88/10 First Division |
2017 | Self Driving Cars | Udacity | Completed |
2016 | IELTS (Academic) | British Council | 7.5/9.0 |
2008 | CBSE Board | MVM School,Chennai | Overall:89%
Physics:95% Maths:95% Chemistry:91% |
Work Experience
Year | Role | Company / Institute | Description |
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07/21 – Present | Data Scientist | Vikasietum Pune, India / SBX Tokyo, Japan | Applied Research on SciML, AI-Healthcare |
9/18 – 06/21 | Machine Learning Lead | Ayu devices | AI for cardiovascular diseases |
08/16- 06/21 | Owner | Vikraman Karunanidhi Consulting Services | AI consulting for startups |
2015 JULY-FEB '16 | Research Technician | Light Matter Interaction Unit Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology(OIST), Japan |
Experimental research in nano Optics |
Teaching
I like to teach and make tutorials and blog posts. Some of my selected courses and
tutorials.
- Published a course on deploying Machine Learning models in web applications
using Tensoflow in Apress, Springer Nature link
- Publish YouTube content on deep learning, TensorFlow, and other machine
learning topics catering to over 1,100 subscribers link
- Created questions for two books on Machine learning - Packt Publishing.
- Blog posts on optics, MEEP FDTD, Raspberry pi link
Research Internship
Year | Institute | Department | Description |
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2015 MAR-JULY | Indian Institute of Technology(IITD), Delhi | Photonics research Labarotory, Physics department | GMR based bio sensors |
2012 MAY-JULY | Indian Institute of Technology(IITM), Madras | Plasmonics research, Electrical Science Department | RCWA |
2011 MAY- JULY | Indian Institute of Science(IISc),Bangalore | Soft-Nano Materials lab, Physics department | Nano Particles |
A deep neural network to identify foreshocks in real time, V. Karunanidhi (2016)
Seismology • Deep LearningConferences
Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting (2019) (Oral Presentations)
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A deep neural network to identify foreshocks in real time
Deep learning • Seismology • 2019
- V.Karunanidhi (2019) -
Event and noise discrimination using AI
Deep learning • Seismology • Noise discrimination • 2019
- V.Karunanidhi et al (2019)
Co-creating a conceptual Al model to promote personalized communication and engagement for people with dementia
Dementia • Recommendor systems • AI-Healthcare • 2022- N. Hird, S. Palaniappan, S. Ghosh, Y. Shimizu, R. Ramanathan, V. Karunanidhi , E. Miura, Y. Tsubono
The work was presented at 13th World Conference of Gerontechnology (2022)
How to Use Deep Learning to Predict Earthquakes using Foreshocks
Deep learning • Seismology • 2019I presented my research at Google's ML Summit (Cambridge, MA). Link to video
Project Manager
I was the project lead for a Dementia based project at Vikasietum manging the data science, QA and the DevOps teams. I lead the team to successful completion of the project.
Charter President of IIT Roorkee chapter of OSA
I started the Optical Society of America's(OSA) Student Chapter in IIT Roorkee and was the Charter President of it. I organized lectures and demonstrations in nearby schools. In 2012, I represented my chapter at the international student leadership conference held at Rochester, USA. In 2014, I invited K.S.Chiang from City University, Hong Kong, to give a lecture at our department's Silver Jubilee. All the events that I organized were a great success.
Class representative
I was the class representative for my batch (IIT Roorkee) for two years. During my time I helped the conduct events at the department and coordinated several activities.
Inno - Innovation competition by Ministry of internal affairs, Japan (2021)
• Innovation • Biomimcry • ClimatefriendlyI was nominated for generation award for my design of ecofriendly vending machines inspired by termite mould
Best Innovative solution - Microsoft Vivli Datathon (2019)
• Innovation • Data privacy • AI AI-HealthcareI was awareded best innovative solution for my idea to represent data in novel way to protect data of rare disease patients.
Maharastra AI Innovation challenge (2019)
• Innovation • AI-HealthcareI represented my firm presenting the AI solution that I developed at the Maharastra AI Innovation challenge(Mumbai, March, 2019) and won top spot in the healthcare. The event was organised by Government of Maharastra, Niti Aayog. Winning at this event, gave us an opportunity to deploy our solution in Hospitals and public healthcare centers in Maharastra.
Top 1% Nation Wide Physics exam at Graduate level
• Physics • Exam •I secured the top 1%(out of 6730 students) in the National Graduate Physics Exam(NGPE) in the year 2011. NGPE is a national level exam for Physics students in India.
Awards by Electronic section, IIT Roorkee
• Prototype •I was an active member at Electronic section, IIT Roorkee and made several prototypes. 'Srishti' is the Annual Hobby Fest of IIT Roorkee,(annual exhibition of IIT Roorkee)
- Won 1st prize Gaming electronics for "Car controlled by hand motion" during Srishti-2011
- Won 2nd Prize for "Automatically Aligning Solar Panel" during Srishti-2010
Recipient of Inspire Scholarship
• Scholarship •I was a recipient of the prestigious Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research(INSPIRE) Scholarship(2009-14) awarded by Ministry of Science Technology, India for academic excellence to support my studies and research internships.
Top 10% from my school at NMTC
• Math • Exam •I was among the top 10% scorers from my school in National Mathematics Talent Competitions (NMTC) in 2005, organised by the Association of Mathematics of India(AMTI). I got a chance to attend a Mathematical workshop. To aim of this exam was to discover and encourage students who have the capacity for original and creative thinking, readiness to attack unfamiliar and non-routine problems exhibiting a general mathematical ability appropriate to their level.
National level 3rd prize in Painting competition
• Painting •I received 3rd prize in a painting competition held by Vision India (in 2003) and also won my first cash prize of Rs.250/-