KS
About

Kavinayan
Sivakumar

Head of Research at SIM IP, leveraging AI and ML to better understand the value of patents.

Career
1.
Princeton → EE UNDERGRAD
B.S. Electrical Engineering
2.
Duke → RL/PhD GRADUATE
Transfer RL · Multi-agent · Control
3.
SIM IP → Research CURRENT
Head of Research · AI × Patents

My research sits at the intersection of machine learning and intellectual property — building systems that quantify the value of ideas.

This blog is where I think out loud about the strategy games I play, the AI systems I build, and the places those worlds overlap.

Interests
REAL-TIME Playing soccer with NY Galicia in the New York Cosmopolitan League
REAL-TIME Playing pickup basketball and missing open layups
PERFECT INFO Playing bullet chess and trying to teach myself the Najdorf (~2200 ELO)
HIDDEN INFO Studying poker and resisting the urge to bluff all in
HIDDEN INFO Playing Hearthstone Battlegrounds (Peak ~6.8k MMR)
OPEN-ENDED Rewatching The Mentalist or anything Guy Ritchie directed
OPEN-ENDED Trying out new coffee places specifically for their chais