Kartik Palani

Kartik Palani is an Applied AI Scientist currently working as a Senior Applied Scientist at ClickUp, where they focus on training and evaluating AI agents. They hold a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they also served as a teaching assistant and conducted extensive research in machine learning and cybersecurity. Kartik has previously held positions as a Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter and a Senior Applied Scientist at iManage, where they developed frameworks for Legal AI agents and optimized large context language models. Their experience includes a variety of internships and research roles at institutions like the MIT Media Lab and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.