Karan Mahesh

I’m a Ph.D. student in the MIT–MechE/WHOI Joint Program, where I research multi-agent planning and autonomy. I’m fortunate to be advised by Dr. Michael Benjamin in MIT’s Marine Autonomy Laboratory. Previously, I was an AI/ML Research Scientist at Aurora Flight Sciences, working on many projects including the DARPA Learning Introspective Control program. I graduated from UC Berkeley in May 2022 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Aerospace Engineering. As an undergraduate, I conducted research in TAFLab with Dr. Reza Alam, HiPeRLab with Dr. Mark Mueller, and completed a visiting research internship with the University of Oxford’s Computational Biology Group. You can find more details in my CV.

Beyond research, I’m passionate about ethical entrepreneurship and creating strong, safe mobility networks.

In my free time, I enjoy tackling DIY projects, cooking my way through Snoop Dogg’s cookbook, and hunting for great deals on eBay.