Karttikeya Mangalam, Ph.D — Founder
Karttikeya currently serves as the Founder & CEO of SigIQ.ai, on the mission to build AI tutors for democratizing access to personalized 1:1 education for students worldwide. He was recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2025 in consumer technology for the impact of SigIQ's products across US & India. Karttikeya holds a Ph.D. in AI from UC Berkeley, where he was mentored by artificial intelligence pioneer, Prof. Jitendra Malik. He has held research roles at Google AI (contributing to the Bard team), Facebook AI Research, and Stanford Vision Lab. During his PhD, Karttikeya published over 40+ research papers, across all major AI conferences that has been cited over 7000+ times. Earlier, Karttikeya graduated summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. During his research career, he has has worked with the several reputed AI researchers internationally -- Prof. Yoshua Bengio (MILA, Canada), Prof. Pascal Fua (EPFL, Switzerland), and Prof. Yoichi Sato (UTokyo, Japan). He also actively engages in mentorship and has advised over 10+ masters & undergraduate students in AI during his PhD at UC Berkeley. Before, he graduated summa cum laude from IIT Kanpur in India with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Experience: 6 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education Technology
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing
Career Highlights
- Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology
- Ph.D. in AI with over 40 published papers
- Founder of AI-driven personalized education platform
Work Experience
SigIQ.ai
Founder & CEO (2 yrs 8 mos)
Google DeepMind
Visiting Research Scientist (5 mos)
University of California, Berkeley
Introduction to ML, Graduate Student Instructor (4 mos)
Facebook AI
Visiting Researcher Scientist (2 yrs)
Toyota Research Institute
Research Intern (2 mos)
Stanford University School of Engineering
Research Assistant (5 mos)
Montréal Institute of Learning Algorithms
Summer Research Intern (4 mos)
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Master's Research Project (5 mos)
The University of Tokyo
Summer Research Intern (2 mos)
Counselling Service, IIT Kanpur
Core Team Member - Operations (1 yr)
Academic Mentor - Introduction to Mechanics (PHY102) (10 mos)
Student Guide (10 mos)
Udghosh, IIT Kanpur
Senior Marketing Executive (11 mos)
Electrical Engineering Association
Assistant UG Co-ordinator (11 mos)
Techkriti, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Senior Media Executive (9 mos)
Antaragni IIT Kanpur
Senior Media Executive (9 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, Berkeley
Master's degree (Dropout) at Stanford University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Semester Exchange at EPFL
