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title: "Varun Balakrishna - Computer Vision Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Varun Balakrishna, Mercedes | Contineu.ai | ETH Zurich | IIT Kharagpur based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, antigravity, and claude code."
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# Varun Balakrishna on Tal

## 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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