Karthick T. Sharma

HDR Student @ QUT

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Me, age 5. Playing Dangerous Dave.

It all started with a computer and a game I could barely understand. I was five. Curiosity did the rest.

Now I research AI in healthcare, trying to build systems that help doctors when the stakes are highest.

I still play. Always have. I’d rather explore the whole map than rush the main quest. Same with books. Philosophy, the nature of consciousness, what existence actually is, who is doing the experiencing. I’ve never found satisfying answers. I keep looking anyway. I also love cats. Unlike AI, they understand your instructions perfectly. They just don’t care.

கற்றது கைமண் அளவு கல்லாதது உலகளவு

What we have learned is a handful of sand; what we have not learned is as vast as the world.

— Avvaiyar

selected publications

  1. ASOC
    Data-Centric Single Teacher Guided Knowledge Distillation for Alleviating Sub-Optimal Supervision in Image Classification
    Karthick Sharma and Bhagya Nathali Silva
    Applied Soft Computing Journal, 2026
    In Press
  2. Preprint
    ED-Triage-Agent: A Framework for Human-AI Collaborative Emergency Triage
    Karthick Sharma, Harikrishnan Sivadas, and Sandeep Reddy
    medRxiv, 2026
  3. ICDE
    Scalable Machine Learning for Real-Time Fault Diagnosis in Industrial IoT Cooling Roller Systems
    Dandan Zhao, Karthick Sharma, Hongpeng Yin, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025
  4. ISBI
    MUM: Enhancing Medical Diagnostics through Unpaired Multimodal Data Integration
    Karthick Sharma, Mokeeshan Vathanakumar, Gamika Seneviratne, and 1 more author
    In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2025
  5. EMNLP
    SentiStream: A Co-Training Framework for Adaptive Online Sentiment Analysis in Dynamic Data Streams
    Yuhao Wu, Karthick Sharma, Chun Wei Seah, and 1 more author
    In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023