Scholar
S. Karthik Mukkavilli
Google Scholar ID: DKFiD7cAAAAJ
Group Head of AI at Mercuria | Adjunct Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,025
H-index
10
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Research cited 3100+ times; published in Nature Machine Intelligence, AGU Earth’s Future, ACM Computing Surveys, Nature Reviews Bioengineering, IEEE Big Data, Atmospheric Research, and American Meteorological Society journals.
- Work featured in MIT Technology Review.
- Contributing research co-author of the New York Times Bestseller 'Drawdown' edited by Paul Hawken.
- Co-founded and chaired AI for Earth Sciences workshops at NeurIPS and ICLR; co-chaired AI committee sessions at the American Meteorological Society.
- Recipient of IBM Outstanding and A-level Accomplishment awards.
Research Experience
- Former researcher at IBM Research – Zurich, advancing generative AI-driven geospatial and climate innovations; work integrated into IBM Watsonx and open-source Granite models (300M+ parameters).
- Postdoctoral training with Turing Laureate Yoshua Bengio at Mila and roboticist Greg Dudek at McGill University.
- ML Project Scientist on U.S. Department of Energy exascale computing initiatives; Invited Visiting Postdoc AI Scholar at Berkeley Lab.
- Co-founded VC-backed climate AI startup Vayuh; advised a health-tech startup later acquired by LifeSpeak.
- Served as advisor to the McConnell Foundation and senior reviewer for the Keeling Curve Prize.
