Hello, I'm

Kannan

Engineer / Researcher /

Bridging Physics and Computer Science to build high-performance AI systems. Specialized in GPU acceleration and probabilistic modeling.

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"Research Fellow & Software Engineer"
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* PINNs for Material Science
* GPU-Accelerated Pipelines
* Real-time Edge AI
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Technologies & Tools

TensorFlow
Python
React
Swift
Docker
CUDA

Work Experience

Summer Researcher & KURF Fellow

Jun 2025 – Present
Dept. of Physics, King's College London

Applied physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to model carbon nanoclusters. Boosted prediction accuracy by 80% and cut simulation time by 60%. Designed an end-to-end GPU-accelerated pipeline in TensorFlow + CUDA.

TensorFlowCUDAPINNsPhysics

Software Engineer & CEO

Feb 2021 – Present
Kannan Industrials

Architected and deployed multiple iOS applications including '1minute DOEShelp', 'iPong', and 'DabCounter'. Integrated CoreML for real-time inference, improving speed by 70% on Apple Watch hardware. Managed full product lifecycle.

iOSSwiftCoreMLCI/CD

Research Intern

Nov 2019
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

Developed CNNs for biomedical imaging achieving 40% improvement over baselines. Implemented RL-based trading bots using LSTMs with mixed-precision GPU training.

CNNRLBiomedical Imaging

Data Science Intern

Nov 2019
NHS Digital

Built LSTM + Word2Vec NLP system to auto-assign ICD-9 codes from clinical notes, raising accuracy from 42% to 71%. Developed anomaly detection tools.

NLPLSTMHealthcare Data

Featured Projects

HPC Molecular Simulation

Parallelised LAMMPS simulations for material discovery using AIRSS, LMP KOKKOS, OpenMP + CUDA.

CUDAOpenMPLAMMPS

TetrisAI

Deep Reinforcement Learning agent achieving a 95% win rate vs. heuristic baselines.

Deep RLPython

iPong Watch Agent

CoreML pong agent optimised specifically for Apple Watch GPU constraints.

CoreMLSwiftWatchOS

AR Lens

Snapchat filter which garnered 2.88M+ views and 150K downloads.

ARSnapchat Studio

NLP NHS System

Clinical text ICD-9 prediction system; experimented with AWS deployment strategies.

NLPAWSPython

YoteCoin Smart Contract

Gas-optimised Ethereum smart contract that reduced transaction costs by 35%.

SolidityBlockchain

Education & Awards

King's College London

King's College London

2024 – 2027

BSc Physics

Alessandro de Vita Computational Physics Prize 2024-25. Modules: Comp Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics.

University College London

University College London

2021 – 2023

MEng Computer Science

Key Modules: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Theory of Computation, Distributed Systems.

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

2012 – 2019

A Levels

A*A*A* in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Physics. 7 A*s, 4 As at GCSE.

Technical Arsenal

Languages

PythonCC++JavaSwiftObjective-CHaskellBash

AI & ML

TensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnCoreMLKeras

Cloud & DevOps

GCP
Docker
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Git

Tools & Frameworks

REST APIs
GraphQL
Agile/Scrum
OpenMP

Ready to Collaborate?

Open for opportunities in AI Engineering, High-Performance Computing, and Research.

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