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Basics

Name Kartik Sharma
Label Ph.D. candidate
Email ksartik@gatech.edu
Phone (470) 437-2059
Url https://ksartik.github.io/

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08
    Research Intern
    Microsoft Research
    Developed an ontology-grounded retrieval augmented generation method for effective and efficient domain adaptation (submitted to EMNLP 2025).
    • Retrieval-augmented Generation
    • Domain Adaptation
    • Hypergraph
  • 2023.05 - 2023.08
    Research Intern
    Visa Research
    Developed a plug-and-play method to classify nodes using a personalized scope of its local neighborhood. Experiments show improved robustness, interpretability, and heterophily performance (accepted at TMLR 2025).
    • Interpretability
    • Graph Neural Networks
  • 2023.05 - 2023.08
    Applied Scientist Intern
    Amazon Science
    Developed an automatic prompt-tuning method to tune class definitions that enhances zero-shot classification of textual data (submitted to internal AMLC workshop).
    • Large language models
    • Classification
  • 2018.09 - 2021.07
    Founding Member
    Tensor Dynamics Pvt. Ltd.
    Developed initial code-base for a green-tech startup to provide reliable solar energy forecasts. Forecasting models deployed by Load Dispatch Centre to monitor over 20 solar stations across India
    • Forecasting
    • Renewable Energy

Education

  • 2021.08 - Present

    Atlanta, GA

    Ph.D.
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    Reliability and controllability of ML models for structured data
  • 2017.07 - 2021.05

    New Delhi, India

    B.Tech.
    Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
    Adversarial attacks on Graph Neural Networks

Awards

Interests

Reliability and alignment measurement
Adversarial Robustness
Structural Alignment
Reliable and interpretable predictive modeling
Structure-inspired self-interpretable models
Robust training schemes
User-controllable generation
Graph Generation under convex constraints
Controllable text generation

References

Prof. Srijan Kumar
Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Dr. Rakshit Trivedi
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Prof. Sayan Ranu
Associate Professor, IIT Delhi
Prof. Sourav Medya
Assistant Professor, UIC