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[ RESEARCH STATUS ]

🔬 Lab	📍 Role	🎯 Focus
Machine Learning Lab, IIIT Hyderabad	Research Intern	3D Computer Vision · Dr. Charu Sharma
CVPR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Research Intern	Scene Text Spotting · Dr. Umapada Pal (IAPR Fellow)
University of Salford, UK	Research Intern	Document Analysis · Dr. Shivakumara P.

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⚡ whoami

class AbhinavShukla:
    def __init__(self):
        self.name         = "Abhinav Shukla"
        self.degree       = "B.Tech (H) CSE (AI) · CSVTU Bhilai · 2023–2027"
        self.focus        = ["Computer Vision", "Explainable AI", "Efficient Deep Learning", "MLOps"]
        self.current      = ["3D Computer Vision @ IIIT-H MLL", "Scene Text Spotting @ ISI Kolkata"]
        self.publications = 4   # NeurIPS 2026 ×2 + ICDAR 2026 ×2 (under review)
        self.reviews      = ["Springer Nature CS (IF: 2.185)", "AIA BonView (IF: 9.375)"]
        self.open_source  = {"Annie (ANN Library)": "200K+ PyPI downloads"}
        self.os           = "Arch Linux btw 🐧"
        self.fun_fact     = "Started programming in 3rd grade. Rank 19 — International Informatics Olympiad 2019."

    def current_mission(self):
        return "Advance efficient, explainable, and deployable AI systems."

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📄 Papers & Publications

🧠	Taylor-Made Sparsity: First-Order Approximation for Structural Pruning in Object Detectors NeurIPS 2026 · #9372 · Under Review Abhinav Shukla, Shefali Bajaj, Nachiket Tapas
🤖	Selective Unlearning in Multi-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient NeurIPS 2026 · #11046 · Under Review Anoushka Chatterjee, Faiz Ali, Abhinav Shukla, Nachiket Tapas
📰	Reliability-Weighted Semi-Supervised End-to-End Approach for Scene Text Spotting ICDAR 2026 · Under Review ISI Kolkata CVPR Unit · Dr. Umapada Pal & Dr. Shivakumara P.
✂️	Explainability-Inspired Layer-Wise Pruning of DNNs for Efficient Object Detection ICDAR 2026 · Under Review · arXiv:2602.14040 Novel SHAP-based pruning framework · superior accuracy–efficiency trade-offs
♻️	EcoLens: Intelligent Imaging for E-Waste Management NITRR Alumni Association Seminar, 2024 · Presented CV-based e-waste classification · 85% accuracy · aligned with UN SDG 12

Reviewer @ Springer Nature Computer Science (IF: 2.185)  |  Artificial Intelligence & Applications, BonView (IF: 9.375)

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🚀 Featured Projects

⚡ Annie — Rust-Powered ANN Library Lightning-fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor search library. SIMD-accelerated brute-force, HNSW indexing, GPU acceleration, zero-copy NumPy integration, thread-safe indexes. Rust SIMD HNSW GPU NumPy	🤖 Claude Computer Use Agent Containerized backend for AI desktop automation. VNC-powered virtual desktop sessions with real-time WebSocket orchestration via Anthropic Claude. FastAPI SQLAlchemy Docker WebSockets VNC
📡 End-to-End MLOps Streaming Pipeline Real-time image classification (ResNet/gRPC) with Kafka video streaming, Docker containerization, and a one-click Streamlit control dashboard. Kafka gRPC PyTorch Docker Streamlit	🗺️ Explainable GeoAI Pipeline Spatial ML pipeline (R²≈0.90) with FLAML-tuned XGBoost + Tree SHAP + GeoShapley decomposition. Interactive Folium + Plotly fairness dashboard. XGBoost SHAP GeoShapley FLAML GeoPandas
🌍 Full World Model (Vision + Memory + Controller) CNN encoder + LSTM memory + controller for autonomous driving in CarRacing-v3. Latent state prediction with RL rewards and automated video evaluation. Model-Based RL CNN LSTM PyTorch Gymnasium	🔍 XFeat + FATA (CVPR / WACV Implementations) From-scratch implementations of XFeat (CVPR 2024) for lightweight image matching and FATA (WACV 2025) for test-time domain adaptation. Computer Vision Domain Adaptation PyTorch Streamlit

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

ML / DL / CV

LLMs & GenAI

DevOps & Cloud

Data Science

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🏆 Trophies

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🎖️ Achievements & Recognition

🦀 200K+ Downloads Creator of Annie Rust-powered ANN library on PyPI

🌐 Rank 19 International Informatics Olympiad 2019 Global Competition

⭐ HackerRank 5-Star Competitive Programming Achiever

🚀 NASA Citizen Scientist May – Oct 2023

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👑 Leadership & Community

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  🏛  Programmers' Paradise · Dept. of CSE, CSVTU Bhilai             │
│      ├── Head of Technical Council           Mar 2025 – Jan 2026    │
│      ├── President (Founder)                 Mar 2024 – Mar 2025    │
│      │   ├── 20+ workshops & hackathons organized                   │
│      │   ├── MoUs with Swapso.io & Altair (Blockchain, AI, Web3)   │
│      │   └── Established MATLAB & Blockchain Web3 Chapters          │
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│  📋  TPO Representative · CSVTU              Apr 2024 – Jul 2024    │
│  🎙  Technical Lead · IEEE ICECCT 2024       Jun 2024               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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📜 Certifications

Certificate	Issuer
Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning
Linear Algebra for Machine Learning & Data Science
Developing Explainable AI (XAI)
Rust for DevOps + Data Engineering with Rust
Deep Learning with PyTorch + TensorFlow + Keras
Machine Learning with Python
Intro to Neural Networks and PyTorch

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