About
Hello there! 👋 I’m Abu Shahid, a Computer Science and Engineering graduate with a sharp interest in Artificial Intelligence, Physics, and Arts.
As a kid, I wanted to do everything except engineering. Through some not-so-terrible developments, here I am! This is my story - what began in front of a PC in Lucknow is now cruising everywhere on the web.
🚀 What I’m Building
Currently I am busy in migrating and setting up this blog space. Will be notifying about the upcoming works :))
💼 What I Do
- Machine Learning Engineer @ AttentionTag Aug 2024 - Present
I deploy machine learning models from research to production, specializing in attention monitoring and behavioral forecasting systems. My work spans cross-platform model deployment for browser-based inference, building computer vision pipelines that analyze human attention patterns, and developing analytics. Beyond ML, I handle backend development, write integration code, and maintain SDK implementations to bridge models with real-world applications.
- Previous Adventures in ML & Research
During my fellowship at Microsoft Bing, I worked on multi-modal video retrieval using natural language queries, which led to a paper at ICVGIP’24. At Decimal Point Analytics, I built some really good OCR models for financial documents and delivered a novel dataset with 2 million plus datapoints and improved over all inference time and performance. I’ve also worked as a freelancer on natural document understanding projects and as an AI consultant for a startup building EHR systems for hospitals.
- Academic & Community Work
I organized the Writer Verification challenge at NCVPRIPG’23, secured 2nd place among 500+ teams in a government hackathon for surveillance anonymization, worked on OCR for Indic languages and spent three semesters as a TA helping students debug their understanding of machine learning along with their numpy arrays.
Full resume at the bottom, or just say hi!
🎓 Education
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Jodhpur | 2024 | 8.6 CGPAIntermediate City Montessori School, Lucknow | 2019 | 98.5% @CISCE
High School St. Thomas College, Lucknow | 2017 | 96% @CISCE
🎨 When I’m Not Coding
I <3 reading and learning
I read voraciously across genres - from classical literature to contemporary sociology. You’ll find my thoughts scattered across blog posts about books and articles exploring sociological themes. I also write foundational ML paper breakdowns.
When I’m not buried in books, I’m exploring various interests - some more developed than others. Currently cultivating habits around fitness, and outdoor adventures.
Check out: My reflections and analyses here
🤝 Let’s Connect
I’m always up for interesting conversations about technology, art, physics, or why UTF-8 is the only character encoding that matters. Reach me out @abumallikmail@gmail.com
Want my resume? Download it here - it’s more formal than this page, I promise.
See you on the other side! 🚀