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    I'm a Masters student at UZH/ETHZ studying Neural Systems and Computation. Previously, I completed my bachelors in Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. My research focuses on building AI systems that can reason, remember, and cooperate over long horizons — spanning efficient architectures, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and long-context modeling. I've worked on these problems at Harvard, NYU, the Allen Institute, and Cohere.
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    <a href="mailto:mkulkarni@ethz.ch">Email</a> &nbsp;/&nbsp;
    <a href="/files/cv_onepage.pdf">Resume</a> &nbsp;/&nbsp;
    <a href="https://github.com/m2kulkarni">GitHub</a> &nbsp;/&nbsp;
    <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/m2kulkarni/">LinkedIn</a> &nbsp;/&nbsp;
    <a href="/files/Rethinking_Sequence_Models-Final.pdf">Masters Thesis</a>
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  <h2>Talks</h2>
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    <li><a href="https://bcs-iitk.github.io/journal-club/2020/12/20/Does-The-Brain-Do-Back-Propagation.html">Does The Brain Do Backpropagation?</a></li>
    <li>Computational Theories of the Brain</li>
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  <h2>Mentored Projects</h2>
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    <li><a href="https://stamatics.github.io/projects-2021/#3---the-dynamics-of-life">The Dynamics of Life</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://bcs-iitk.github.io/projects/2021/05/16/models-of-memory.html">Models of Memory</a></li>
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