Merge pull request #7 from MISTLab/add-karthik-soma-profile

Add karthik soma profile

Author: karthiks1701

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+name: Karthik Soma
+role: phd
+title: PhD Student
+photo: karthik-soma.jpg
+short_bio: PhD student at Mila and Polytechnique Montréal working on collective intelligence, reinforcement learning, and robotics.
+supervisor: Giovanni Beltrame
+tags: [Collective Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics]
+email: karthik.soma@etud.polymtl.ca
+github: karthiks1701
+linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-soma-b92166162/
+scholar: eJ5jLXoAAAAJ
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+
+Karthik Soma is a PhD student at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila Quebec AI Institute, supervised by Prof. Giovanni Beltrame. His research investigates how simple agents following simple rules can give rise to a Hive Mind that exhibits sophisticated collective intelligence.
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+## Current Work
+
+- **Hive Mind**: Exploring applications of the Hive Mind for RL, collective intelligence, and Meta Learning.
+- **Collective Spatial Intelligence**: Designing decentralised strategies that enable robot swarms to navigate complex environments collaboratively, relying only on local interactions and simple rules.
+
+## Contact
+
+Reach Karthik at [karthik.soma@etud.polymtl.ca](mailto:karthik.soma@etud.polymtl.ca) or on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-soma-b92166162/).