CV – Chirag Varun Shukla

Academic career

since December 2024: Research associate at the Chair of Political Science with special emphasis on domestic politics and comparative government at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich.

January 2021 – December 2024: Scientific Worker at the Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich.
Research on interpretability and causality for graph neural networks. Implementation of trustworthy graph neural network algorithms in Python using Pytorch, Pytorch-Geometric, Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib.
Joint projects with industrial (Covestro, Schott) and public (Harvard, Imperial College London) institutions.

June 2017 - May 2019: Master of Science
Mathematics at Christ University Bengaluru, IndiaSpecialization in graph theory and fluid mechanics.

June 2014 – May 2017: Bachelor of Science
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics at Christ University Bengaluru, India. 

 

Work and project experience

April 2018 – June 2018: Research Intern in Cryptography at St. Xavier’s College Kalkutta, India.
Analysis of Encryption schemes and secret-sharing schemes in Python under Dr. Angshuman Das.

June 2017 – October 2018: Teaching Assistant at Christ University Bengaluru, India.
Taught Python at a beginner and intermediate level for Fourier analysis, finite difference methods, financial mathematics, and graph theory.

Juni 2017 – Oktober 2017: : Teaching Assistant at Domlur Government School Bengaluru, India.
Taught mathematics for grades 8 to 12 under the NGO Senior Citizens Bangalore.

 

Languages:

Deutsch: B2

Englisch: Native

Hindi: Native

Bengali: Native