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General Information

Full Name Karan Shah
Date of Birth 12th January 1998
Languages English, German

Education

  • 2020 - 2023
    M.Sc. Informatics
    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 2015 - 2019
    B. E. Computer Engineering
    D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India
    • Courses
    • Practicals
      • CSC306 Electronic Circuits and Communication Fundamentals
      • CPL501 Web Technologies Laboratory
      • CPL601 Network Programming Laboratory
      • CPL701 Network Threats and Attacks Laboratory
      • CPL801 Cloud Computing Laboratory
    • Bachelor-Final Project
      • Speech to Indian Sign Language Translation System, under Sonawane, Pankaj Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai.

Experience

  • 2022 - 2023
    Computer Scientist - Autonomous Driving
    Institute Systems Engineering for Future Mobility, German Aerospace Centre
    • Developing new, efficient systems engineering methods and tools for demonstrating functionality (verification), practical suitability (validation) as well as the further development of trustworthy transport systems.
    • Researching co-ordinated, co-operative transport systems with distributed learning intelligence with the help of driving and traffic simulators.
  • 2022 - 2023
    Research Assistant - Autonomous Driving
    Chair of Traffic Engineering and Control , TU Munich
    • Researched and operationalized the construction of a digital twin of the city of Ingolstadt, BY, DE using ArcGIS CityEngine and Unity3D.
    • Ran procedural tests on a landscape of approx 30 sq. km. with an aim to answer questions in the domains of traffic efficiency, safety, ecology and social acceptance of autonomous vehicles.
  • 2022
    Data Science Intern
    Quantum Diamonds , Munich, Germany
    • Modelled Rabi and Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) data using techniques like Gaussian Process, CMA-ES and a custom Auto-Encoder to better understand and streamline the process of creation of Diamonds with Nitrogen Vacancies and their properties.
  • 2022
    Business Analyst Intern
    BMW Group , Munich, Germany.
    • Worked on handling customer feedback processing as a Big Data application within the Global Customer and Dealer Satisfaction Team at BMW. Prototyped a Document Clustering pipeline using SBERT and Doc2Vec.
    • Led the process management pipeline during the market launch of the new-7 series (2022) in the European and North American Markets.
  • 2021 - 2022
    Research Assistant - Reinforcement Learning
    Chair of Computational Modelling and Simulation , TU Munich
    • Learnt local & global navigation behaviors via multimodal interaction between agent-agent and agent-environment in real world 3D environments using Unity ML Agents and Open AI Gym.
    • Matched benchmark OpenAI benchmarks, and devised connectors to run OpenAI algorithms on packaged Unity environments.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Business Analyst
    Quantiphi Inc. , Mumbai, India
    • Worked with a decision-science team on multiple use cases in Machine Learning & Computer Vision.
    • Led decision-making conversations using market trends, user behavior findings, price & market constraints and data visualizations.
  • 2018 - 2019
    Machine Learning Intern
    National Stock Exchange of India Limited , Mumbai, India
    • Worked on a proprietary classification algorithm which categorized trade orders into different categories in conjunction with the technical team at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
    • Was awarded a bounty of $4000 for winning the NSE Futuretech Machine Learning in Capital Markets Hackathon, Mumbai 2018.

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • Best Final Year Project awarded by DJASCII, D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India.
  • 2018
    • Winner at NSE Futuretech Hackathon, Mumbai.
    • Awarded a bounty of $4000 and an internsip opportunity at the National Stock Exchange of India Limited.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: My hobbies include asking questions, professional bubble-wrap​ popping, freaking out pigeons and math. I also play Chess.