Karthik Vaidhyanathan

Assistant Professor. IIIT Hyderabad, India

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Karthik Vaidhyanathan is an Assistant Professor at the Software Engineering Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad, India where he is also associated with the leadership team of smart city living lab. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy and did his postdoc at the University of L’Aquila, Italy. His main research interests lie in the intersection of software architecture and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a specific focus on building sustainable software systems. His research focuses on how AI techniques can be leveraged to better architect self-adaptive systems and further how to better define architecting practices for developing AI-enabled systems. As a part of his research activities, he serves as a reviewer/organizing committee member in various workshops, conferences, and journals. He is also an editorial board member (SE Radio) of IEEE Software

Karthik also poses more than 5 years of industrial experience as an employee and as a consultant in building and deploying ML products/services.

Upcoming Events/Talks

  • Engineering Agentic AI Online Course Online Course on Engineering Agentic AI from IIIT Hyderabad January 2026 Super excited and honored to be doing this online course. For registrations Website

  • Tutorial on GenAI for Software Architecture, Netherlands Invited Tutorial, Digital Architecture in the Age of GenAI January 2026 Looking forward to this tutorial for practitioners and researchers interested to leverage the use of GenAI and Agentic AI. Thanks to Digital Sustainability Center and Prof. Patricia Lago for the invitation. More Details

news

Nov 14, 2025 Invited Talk on Generative AI in Software Engineering at ThinkWise Event
Nov 14, 2025 Panelist at Uber India GenAI Meetup, Hyderabad
Nov 10, 2025 Invited Talk on Self-adapting AI Systems at Dolby
Oct 25, 2025 Invited Talk on Software Sustainability at JPMorgan Chase
Oct 20, 2025 Research Showcase on MOYA at Nasscom Agentic AI Confluence

selected publications

  1. Engineering LLM Powered Multi-agent Framework for Autonomous CloudOps
    Engineering LLM Powered Multi-agent Framework for Autonomous CloudOps
    Parthasarathy, Kannan,  Vaidhyanathan, Karthik, Dhar, Rudra, Krishnamachari, Venkat, Muhammed, Basil, Kakran, Adyansh, Akshathala, Sreemaee, Arun, Shrikara, Dubey, Sumant, Veerubhotla, Mohan, and others,
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08243 2025
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  2. Approach Towards Semi-Automated Certification for Low Criticality ML-Enabled Airborne Applications
    Approach Towards Semi-Automated Certification for Low Criticality ML-Enabled Airborne Applications
    Sridhar, Chandrasekar, Gupta, Vyakhya, Jain, Prakhar, and Vaidhyanathan, Karthik
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17028 2025
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  3. Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical Study
    Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical Study
    Dhar, Rudra,  Vaidhyanathan, Karthik, and Varma, Vasudeva
    In 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, ICSA 2024, Hyderabad, India, June 4-8, 2024 2024
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  4. EcoMLS: A Self-Adaptation Approach for Architecting Green ML-Enabled Systems
    EcoMLS: A Self-Adaptation Approach for Architecting Green ML-Enabled Systems
    Tedla, Meghana, Kulkarni, Shubham, and Vaidhyanathan, Karthik
    In 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture, ICSA 2024 - Companion, Hyderabad, India, June 4-8, 2024 2024
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  5. Towards Self-Adaptive Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Through QoS-Aware Model Switching
    Towards Self-Adaptive Machine Learning-Enabled Systems Through QoS-Aware Model Switching
    Kulkarni, Shubham, Marda, Arya, and Vaidhyanathan, Karthik
    In 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023, Luxembourg, September 11-15, 2023 2023
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  6. Software Architecture for ML-based Systems: What Exists and What Lies Ahead
    Software Architecture for ML-based Systems: What Exists and What Lies Ahead
    Muccini, Henry, and Vaidhyanathan, Karthik
    In 1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI, WAIN@ICSE 2021, Madrid, Spain, May 30-31, 2021 2021
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