Narasimha Karthik J
Research Engineer, AI Systems
Hi, I’m Karthik — a Research Engineer who builds AI systems that work in the real world.
I bridge research and production — from publishing at GECCO ‘25 and ALife 2025 to deploying systems that saved teams months of work and secured six-figure funding.
What I Do #
Research — Combining LLMs with evolutionary computation at CCL Lab (Northwestern).
Build — Production AI systems across domains — legal, aerospace, healthcare, and beyond.
Write — Sharing lessons on LLMs and agent systems at NeuraForge.
Research Interests #
Large Language Models & Agent Architectures | Reinforcement Learning & Evolutionary Computation | AI Safety & Mechanistic Interpretability
Recent Work #
LEAR — LLM-driven evolution of agent-based rules (GECCO ‘25)
QD-LEAR — Quality-diversity tradeoffs in evolved agents (ALife 2025)
VouchAI — Agent-to-agent insurance protocol using Claude (Won Anthropic track at YC Hackathon)