Harshad Karle

About Harshad Karle

I\'m someone who takes things seriously - not in a rigid way, but in the way where I genuinely care about the quality of what I build, how deeply I understand something, and what kind of person I\'m becoming alongside it.I\'m 20, based in Pune, studying Electronics and Computer Engineering at PICT - a branch that sits at the intersection of hardware thinking and software depth. That cross-domain lens is something I actively cultivate. I find that people who only know software often miss something the hardware side teaches you: constraints are real, efficiency matters, and elegance under limitation is a skill.AI is where I\'ve chosen to go deep. Not because it\'s trending, but because it\'s the most intellectually alive field I\'ve encountered - the problems are hard, the pace is brutal, and the gap between understanding something and building something that actually works is humbling every single time. That gap is what keeps me engaged.Outside of the technical work, I teach ML to my juniors - which is the fastest way I know to find out what you actually understand versus what you\'ve just memorized. I organize DataWiz, a Kaggle ML competition under Credenz, where I get to be on the problem-design side rather than the solver side — a different and genuinely harder skill.I play the Tabla - have for years. It\'s not a resume line for me. There\'s something about rhythm, precision, and the relationship between structure and improvisation that maps surprisingly well onto how I think about systems. You build the discipline so the creativity has somewhere to stand.I\'m driven by a version of myself that is sharper, more capable, and more useful than the current one. That\'s not self-criticism - it\'s direction. I think the best engineers and researchers are people who stay genuinely curious and refuse to coast.If you\'re building something real in AI and want someone who will work hard, think carefully, and not pretend to know things they don\'t - I\'m worth a conversation. h••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Research Intern

   Pune Institute Of Computer Technology

   Sep 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Contributing to an active research project on multimodal summarization, focusing on cross-modal feature alignment. Built a multimodal embedding pipeline that projects vision and language representations into a shared latent space using contrastive learning with clustering which is designed to surface semantically consistent concepts across modalities. Developed a cluster scoring and filtering framework to retain high-quality concept anchors for downstream vision-language generation tasks.

Education

• Shri. Bapusaheb D. D. Vispute college

  High school, Science

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Computer Engineering