Karunya Sethuraman

Hi, my name is Karunya Sethuraman, and I'm a recent CS graduate from MIT (S.B. & M.Eng '20), currently open to new opportunities.

Thesis: A Step Toward Dynamic Displays and Ecological Data Collection In Cognitive Testing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M. Eng in Computer Science and Engineering, Systems Concentration (Sept. 2020)

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Randall Davis and Dr. Dana L. Penney, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering (May. 2020)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Morgan Stanley Technology Banking M&A

Menlo Park, CA

July 2020 - Present
Investment Banking Analyst, Technology M&A

Worked on Xilinx’s $35Bn Sale to AMD and Gores Holdings VI’s $2.3Bn Acquisition of Matterport

    Morgan Stanley Technology Banking

    New York, NY

    July - August 2019
    Investment Banking Intern

    Worked on several technology transactions; share buybacks, mergers, and acquisitions

      Oral Communication (6.UAT)

      Cambridge, MA

      January – May 2019
      Teaching Assistant

      Taught students to speak confidently and give effective technical presentations

        Tophatter, Inc

        San Francisco, CA

        June – August 2018
        Software Engineering Intern

        Built custom catalogs, responsive product page features, internal API for mobile clients, and internal tool to facilitate creation of personalized onsite schedule pages for interviewees

          MIT Music Technology Lab, led by Prof. Eran Egozy

          Cambridge, MA

          June – December 2017
          Undergraduate Researcher, ConcertCue

          Full-stack web development; deployed web application to provide real-time content at concerts

            Projects & Research

            Please see below a couple projects I've worked on.

            Alabama Vaccine Aggregator

            Worked with Partners In Health on a website (https://bamavax.info) and twitter bot to scrape available Covid-19 vaccine appointments across the state of Alabama and make them available

            ColorStitch

            We aim to create a state-of-the-art cross-stitch pattern generator and use it to both generate and sell custom patterns & cross-stitch kits. Currently funded by MIT Sandbox.

            Secure Email Voting

            Final project for 6.857 (Network and Computer Security) - a secure email voting scheme based on an overlay network that utilizes onion routing to provide users with anonymity. Includes strategies for secure registration, voting, and authentication.

            ColorDJ

            A system that allows the user to submit images over text and returns a Spotify playlist songs based around the image's properties (color profile, detected expressions / objects, etc). This project was built with Flask in Python and uses the Google Cloud Vision and Language Processing API, the Spotify API, and Twilio.

            FRUITS

            FRUITS offers the opportunity to create an unlimited number of different itineraries. Each itinerary keeps track of the locations visited and the times in the schedule reserved for the visit. System: built using Ruby on Rails with a React frontend, leveraging Google Cloud Platform for Maps and Places.

            Identifying Acute Myeloid Leukemia using Machine Learning Methods on Selected DNA Methylation Data

            Final Project for 6.047 (Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution), a research project involving the creation and evaluation of feature selection and machine learning methods, outlining the pros and cons of each when applied to identifying AML cases using DNA methylation data.

            FunTimes

            Android application for finding fun places nearby, based on certain charecteristics. A project for YHack 2017.

            Language Learner

            Available on the Chrome Web Store, Language Learner highlights words from the user's quizlet playlist in any webpage, so they can learn new vocabulary in context. Works across languages.

            Programming Languages

            Proficient: Python, C/C++, Java, HTML/CSS, Ruby / Rails, Swift

            Familiar with Node.js, JavaScript, React, SQL

            Get in touch

            If you have an opportunity you think I'd be interested in, or would like to chat, please reach out!