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Karthik R. Narasimhan is an Associate Professor and co-Director of the Princeton NLP lab at Princeton University. His research focuses on developing intelligent autonomous agents that can interact with and adapt to complex real-world environments. He investigates new paradigms, benchmarks, and frameworks to advance machine learning and AI applications. Recent contributions include the autoregressive transformer model for natural language processing (NLP) tasks and the introduction of benchmarks for AI coding agents. Karthik's notable works include the ReAct Tree Thoughts and SWE-bench frameworks, which have significantly advanced the efficiency and capabilities of AI agents for software engineering tasks. He also explored web-based AI agents that simulate realistic shopping experiences. Karthik received his Ph.D. from MIT under the supervision of Prof. Regina Barzilay and has also spent time as a research scientist at OpenAI and as the head of research at Sierra.
OpenAI • United States
Conducted research on AI technologies and applications.
Sierra • United States
Leading research efforts in advanced AI projects.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.