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Varun Balakrishna

Mercedes | Contineu.ai | ETH Zurich | IIT Kharagpur

Bengaluru

2+ years of work experience

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Aug 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
Oct 202410 mosJul 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Contineu
Jun 20244 mosSep 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ETH Zürich
May 20233 mosJul 2023

Zurich, Switzerland

Working on ML driven methods to analyze the reusability of building materials and its impact on circular economy at the Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG)
Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi
May 20226 mosOct 2022

Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

Detecting fraudulent reviewer groups using graph clustering algorithms with topic modeling - Published at the 2022 International Conference on Data Analytics for Business & Industry (ICDABI)
University of Guelph
May 20224 mosAug 2022

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Sequestering and storing CO2 by making innovative proprietary minerals - Collaborated with an industrial research team to conduct experiments on carbon capture technologies - Synthesized minerals for innovative mixtures and remineralizers to reduce CO2 emissions by 70% negating 0.5% of global carbon emissions. - Findings to be published which would help optimize production, reduce costs and decrease lead time by 30%

Varun’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Dual Degree, BTech + MTech

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

20195 yrs2024

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Headline

Mercedes | Contineu.ai | ETH Zurich | IIT Kharagpur

About

Hello! I'm Varun, a Computer Vision and Robotics Engineer at Mercedes Benz Research and Development India

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

antigravity

claude code

claude

github copilot

hugging face

Work experience

Computer Vision Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Aug 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Post Graduate Engineering Trainee at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Oct 2024 - Jul 2025 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI Engineer at Contineu, Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Student Researcher at ETH Zürich, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Zurich, Switzerland, Working on ML driven methods to analyze the reusability of building materials and its impact on circular economy at the Dept. of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG)

Research Intern at Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi, May 2022 - Oct 2022 · 6 mos, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Detecting fraudulent reviewer groups using graph clustering algorithms with topic modeling - Published at the 2022 International Conference on Data Analytics for Business & Industry (ICDABI)

MITACS Globalink Research Intern at University of Guelph, May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Sequestering and storing CO2 by making innovative proprietary minerals - Collaborated with an industrial research team to conduct experiments on carbon capture technologies - Synthesized minerals for innovative mixtures and remineralizers to reduce CO2 emissions by 70% negating 0.5% of global carbon emissions. - Findings to be published which would help optimize production, reduce costs and decrease lead time by 30%

Education

Dual Degree, BTech + MTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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