Hi, I'm Utsab.

I am third year undergraduate student at IIT Kharagpur pursuing a Dual-Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering.

I am currently the Head of Vision at AGV.AI, a UG research group under Prof. Debashish Chakravarty in IIT Kharagpur working on autonomous vehicles and robotic systems. I was also fortunate enough to intern under Prof. Leena Vachhani at IIT Bombay this summer.

I am interested in works involving optimized machine learning, robotics and high-performance computing. Open to any good learning opportunities.

Publications

[1] Krutarth Trivedi, Utsab Karan, Advaith Sudarshan and Leena Vachhani, “Safe Indoor Exploration and Sparse Topological Mapping with Integrated Planning and Control”. Presented at the IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Bangalore, Dec 2025. [paper]

Projects

Diffusion (Small) Language Model from Scratch

Extremely Light-weight Monocular Depth Estimation

Hard Modelling - General Championship 2025

Beetle Antenna Search Optimization for AV Navigation

Pure Pursuit Controller - F1Tenth

Object Tracking Aim Bot

Achievements

Rank 15 among 124k candidates in WBJEE 2023
Rank 1784 with 99.86 percentile score in JEE Mains 2023
Rank 1596 with 99.16 percentile score in JEE Advanced 2023
4th place in Hardware Modeling in General Championship 2025 [Link]
1st in Qualification and 9th Globally — Roboracer Sim Racing League @ ICRA 2025 [Link]
2nd in Robust Visual Foraging Competition @ NeurIPS 2025 [Link]
5th in Qualification and 7th Globally — Roboracer Sim Racing League @ CDC-TF 2025 [Link]

📩 Feel free to drop a message at utsabkaran2010[at]gmail[dot]com

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