M.Sc. Karthik Sai Pasupuleti

Karthik Sai Pasupuleti is a Ph.D. student in the Human-Centered Intelligent Systems (HCIS) at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. His research focuses on in-cabin monitoring and neuromorphic AI. He completed a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, India, and a master’s degree in international automotive engineering at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany. During his studies, he worked at CARISSMA Automotive Safety Research as a student assistant, where he developed AI algorithms for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). He later joined VAIVA GmbH as a working student, where he contributed to developing in-cabin monitoring systems for adaptive airbag deployment and LLM-based agents for automotive test case generation. His master’s thesis, carried out in collaboration with VAIVA GmbH and CARIAD, focused on crash severity prediction.