Vishal Shankar

About

Early-career AI/ML engineer with internship experience across machine learning engineering, generative AI, and applied research. Built and deployed production ML systems including RAG assistants, document summarization models, and evaluation pipelines using Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and cloud tooling.

Experience

• Machine Learning Engineer Intern
  Besam AI
• Machine Learning Research Intern
  DEximL
• Generative AI Engineer Intern
  CEDAI
• Design & AI Integration Intern
  VEXSAA

Education

• B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
  Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
  Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning · 2028

Skills

• SQL <3 months
• C <3 months
• Python <3 months
• Prompt Engineering <3 months
• NumPy <3 months
• Pandas <3 months
• Streamlit <3 months
• scikit-learn <3 months
• OpenCV <3 months
• PyTorch <3 months
• TensorFlow <3 months
• AWS <3 months
• Keras <3 months
• LangChain <3 months
• API Integration Understanding <3 months
• Go <3 months
• R <3 months
• RAG <3 months
• CUDA <3 months
• LLMs <3 months
• Embeddings <3 months
• Sentence Transformers <3 months
• Faiss <3 months
• Agentic AI Systems <3 months
• OCI <3 months

Tools / apps / platforms

• ChromaDB <3 months
• Docker <3 months
• Git <3 months
• GitHub <3 months
• GKE <3 months
• Hugging Face Transformers <3 months
• Jupyter Notebook <3 months
• Kubernetes <3 months
• Pinecone <3 months
• The MathWorks MATLAB <3 months
• VS Code <3 months

Projects

• NeuroDyads Brain-to-Brain Decoder ↗
  Python, MNE, CEBRA

  End-to-end EEG hyperscanning pipeline with preprocessing, ICA-based artifact removal, and joint speaker-listener embedding learning.

• Edge Inference Orchestrator ↗
  Python

  Latency-aware edge-inference simulator comparing routing policies with a logistic-regression risk predictor for escalation decisions.

• Spatial Awareness System for the Visually Impaired
  YOLOv8, Raspberry Pi 5, Hailo-8L

  Computer-vision system with real-time object detection and audio/haptic feedback; placed 2nd in IBM College Research Competition.

Courses & certifications

• OCI 2025 Certified Generative AI Professional · OCI · 2025
• OCI 2025 Certified Data Science Professional · OCI · 2025
• IBM Machine Learning with Python · IBM
• Google AI Certified · Google
• Machine Learning · Stanford x Deeplearning.AI
• Google Cloud Engineering · Google

🏆 Achievements & awards

• IBM College Research Competition

  2nd place for the Spatial Awareness System for the Visually Impaired.

• HITS Chennai Paper Presentation

  1st place for UN Sustainable Development Goals paper presentation.

• SRM Kattankulathur 12-hour IoT Hackathon

  2nd place for a Digital Twin project.

• Google Thinkathon, HITS Chennai

  2nd place.

⚽ Extracurricular activities

• IBM Club — Technical Lead

  Conducted ML systems workshops, mentored 30–40 students, and organized technical events.

• NSS Volunteer

  Volunteer for 2 years.