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 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 CGPA
Intermediate 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

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See you on the other side! 🚀