Nikhil Karnad

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Academics

My education started at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan (PSBB), Chennai, India and I followed it with a five year dual-degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. At present, I'm a second year graduate student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. The following are interesting courses I've taken.

Fall 2006 onwards

  • CSCI 4250: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES
  • CSCI 6050: COMPUTABILITY & COMPLEXITY
  • CSCI 6140: COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS
  • CSCI 4020: COMPUTER ALGORITHMS
  • CSCI 4430: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
  • CSCI 6962: RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS
  • CSCI 6961: GEOMETRIC OPTIMIZATION FOR ROBOTICS
  • ECSE 4490: FUNDAMENTALS OF ROBOTICS
  • CSCI 6966: ROBOTICS II
  • ECSE 6440: OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY