Kannan Sekar Annu Radha

Software engineer and physics researcher building GPU-accelerated AI systems, scientific tooling, and polished products.

Machine learning is my primary field of interest.

London, England, United Kingdom753 followers500+ connections

PINN Simulation

Carbon nanocluster system

Running
System
C240 Nano Cluster
Method
Physics-Informed Neural Network
Framework
TensorFlow + CUDA
Precision
Mixed FP16 / FP32
Generated computational physics lattice visual
model.pytrain.pypinn.py
@tf.function(jit_compile=True)
def loss_fn(model, x, t):
    u = model([x, t], training=True)
    residual = pde_residual(u, x, t)
    bc = boundary_loss(u, x, t)
    return residual + 0.2 * bc

Training Progress

Live

Edge AI Preview

CoreML inference - Apple Watch Series 9

Inference

0.98

iPong

Real-time policy

128 FPS

80%

PINN accuracy lift

on carbon nanocluster predictions

60%

faster simulations

with a GPU-accelerated pipeline

2.88M+

AR views

across Snapchat Lenses

Summer Researcher & KURF Fellow

Department of Physics, King's College London

Applied physics-informed neural networks to model carbon nanoclusters, boosting prediction accuracy by 80% and cutting simulation time by 60% with an end-to-end TensorFlow + CUDA pipeline.

TensorFlowCUDAPINNsGPU AccelerationPhysics

Jun 2025 - Present

Software Engineer & CEO

Kannan Industrials

Architected and deployed iOS applications including 1minute DOEShelp, iPong, and DabCounter. Integrated CoreML for real-time inference, improving speed by 70% on Apple Watch hardware.

SwiftiOSCoreMLWatchOSCI/CD

Feb 2021 - Present

Research Intern

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology

Developed CNNs for biomedical imaging with a 40% improvement over baselines, and implemented reinforcement-learning systems using LSTMs with mixed-precision GPU training.

CNNReinforcement LearningLSTMBiomedical Imaging

Nov 2019

Data Science Intern

NHS Digital

Built an LSTM + Word2Vec NLP system to auto-assign ICD-9 codes from clinical notes, raising accuracy from 42% to 71% while adding anomaly detection tooling.

NLPWord2VecHealthcare AnalyticsAnomaly Detection

Nov 2019

featured project

HPC Molecular Simulation

# LAMMPS input excerpt

units metal

atom_style atomic

boundary p p p

pair_style eam/alloy

neighbor 2.0 bin

fix 1 all nvt temp 300 300 0.1

run 500000

Parallelised molecular simulations for material discovery using AIRSS search strategies with LMP KOKKOS, OpenMP, and CUDA acceleration.

3.2x speedup
1.8M+ structures
Reproducible pipeline
LAMMPSKOKKOSOpenMPCUDAC++Python

Research Systems

Bridging physics, machine learning, and real-world product constraints with systems that can be measured, tuned, and shipped.

Scientific AI

Physics-informed models for materials and molecular systems.

NanoclustersPINNsEnergy maps
  • 80% higher prediction accuracy
  • 60% reduction in simulation time
  • GPU accelerated TensorFlow + CUDA

Edge ML

Real-time inference on constrained Apple devices.

TrainingCoreMLWatchOS
  • 70% faster inference
  • Low-latency interaction loops
  • iPong and wellness apps

Product Engineering

Scalable systems from prototype to production.

GCPDockerKubernetes
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions
  • Containerized services
  • Monitoring-minded deployment

Education

KCL

King's College London

BSc Physics - Passed Year 1

2024 - 2027

King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2025. Recipient of the Alessandro de Vita Computational Physics Prize 2024-25. Relevant modules include Mathematics & Computation, Classical Physics, Astrophysics, and Modern Physics.

UCL

University College London

MEng Computer Science

2021 - 2023

Focused on algorithms, machine learning, theory of computation, distributed systems, and software engineering.

RGS

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

A Levels

2012 - 2019

A*A*A* in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Physics. 7 A*s and 4 As at GCSE.

Technical Skills

Languages

PythonCC++JavaSwiftObjective-CHaskellBash

AI / Machine Learning

TensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnKerasCoreML

Cloud & DevOps

Google Cloud PlatformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGit

Systems & Tools

OpenMPCUDAREST APIsGraphQLLinuxAgile / Scrum

Credentials & Services

Public LinkedIn profile details add a fuller picture of the mobile, UX, cloud, and machine-learning work behind the portfolio.

Licenses & Certifications

Create the User Interface with SwiftUI

Meta

Issued Nov 2025

Introduction to iOS Mobile Application Development

Meta

Issued Sep 2025

Principles of UX/UI Design

Meta

Issued Sep 2025

Programming Fundamentals in Swift

Meta

Issued Sep 2025

Version Control

Meta

Issued Sep 2025

Deep Learning

DeepLearning.AI

Issued Mar 2021

Machine Learning

Stanford University

Issued Mar 2021

Honors & Awards

Nov 2025

King's Research Award

King's College London

Recognizes participation in the King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship programme after three months of summer research.

Nov 2024

Alessandro de Vita Computational Physics Prize 24/25

King's College London NMES

Awarded for completing first-year computational challenges requiring original programs for code-breaking and biophysics tasks.