pranav karra
hey!i'm a computer science student at penn state. i travel to sf often during the semester and head back for exams. i live in arcadia through the residency program, and network my way into events and community. i'm active on twitter – that's where i recommend people reach out and where i express my opinions.
Publications
experience
penn state robo x — computer vision team lead
- led a 12-member team to clinch #8 in north america at dji robomaster championships
- developed an autonomous navigation system for hero bot using lidar-based slam with ros
- implemented multi-object tracking with kalman filters and real-time scoring with opencv
machine learning @ penn state — president
- founded and lead the first machine learning club with 120 active members, curating over 500 ml resources
- spearheading speaker series with top academics and industry leaders
- orchestrating events and travel funding opportunities
penn state campus recreation — e-sports attendant
- diagnosed and resolved hardware/software issues across 50+ systems
- managed inventory for pc parts, consoles, and games
- assisted in hiring and training new attendants
acm mlpsu — mlpsu captain
- led weekly workshops for 20 students covering regression and clustering
- delivered live coding demos using reveal.js & quarto
manipal institute of technology — machine learning intern
- optimized a custom 3D HOG algorithm, reducing processing time drastically
- co-developed a 3D CNN classifier for medical image analysis
- worked with NumPy, SimpleITK, and Plotly
Projects
Ongoing
Completed
natural disaster information site framework
web framework for rapid deployment of natural disaster info sites
owly
ai-powered screenshot organizer using computer vision
hog3d - histogram of oriented gradients 3d
3d feature extraction for coronary arteries from ct scans
goodlinks raycast extension
raycast extension for the goodlinks bookmark manager
skhd raycast extension
raycast extension for macos keyboard daemon skhd
certifications
ai for science on supercomputers
argonne national laboratory
large language models: text classification for nlp using bert
linkedin learning
machine learning bootcamp fall 2023
nittany ai alliance psu
achievements
hackpsu overall first place winner
penn state university, fall 2024
dean's list
penn state university, fall 2023
feel free to reach out through twitter, linkedin or email!
pranav