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Karan Variyambat - Machine Learning Researcher in San Diego, CA

Karan Variyambat

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher specializing in computer vision and multimodal AI

San Diego Supercomputer CenterUC San DiegoSan Diego, CA3 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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Developed a production wildfire smoke detection system where smoke is visually subtle and easily confused with fog/clouds; addressed this with a hybrid CNN+LSTM+ViT model and multimodal weather features to reduce false positives. Experienced running scalable, reproducible ML pipelines on shared GPU infrastructure using Slurm and Kubernetes-style batch jobs with checkpointing, retries, and rigorous error analysis.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and deployed a production wildfire smoke detection system from camera imagery
  • Reduced false positives by combining visual modeling with contextual weather signals (multimodal approach)
  • Designed hybrid deep learning architecture (CNN + LSTM + Vision Transformer) for subtle, ambiguous visual detection
  • Handled real-world data issues: temporal misalignment and missing values across modalities
  • Scaled and stabilized ML training/eval via Slurm and Kubernetes-style batch jobs with checkpointing and retries
  • Strong evaluation discipline: metrics defined upfront, offline benchmarks, end-to-end stability checks, and scenario-based error slicing

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Experience

Machine Learning ResearcherSan Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD · Apr 2024 – Present
Radio Frequency Machine Learning InternSensoride Corporation · Jul 2024 – Sep 2024internship
Research AssistantXu Research Group, UCSD · Jan 2024 – Mar 2024
Electronics System Design EngineerLarsen and Toubro Defense · Nov 2020 – Apr 2022
Machine Learning InternVeermata Jijabai Technological Institute · May 2019 – Jul 2019internship

Education

UC San Diegomaster, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Focus: Machine Learning and Data Science) (2025)
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institutebachelor, Electronics Engineering (2020)

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

Deepfake detectionComputer visionVideo forensics

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Karan VariyambatMid-level Machine Learning Engineer/Researcher specializing in computer vision and multimodal AI