Shiv Gupta

MS AI Student @ CMU - Building LLM agents, latent reasoning systems & scalable backends

Hi, I'm Shiv - a Master's student in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University. I build LLM agents, latent reasoning systems, token-efficient reasoning techniques, and scalable backends. Previously I've worked on diffusion-based generative models at NUS and RAG-powered enterprise tools at Evalueserve.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation

May 2027

GPA: 3.33/4

Coursework: Computer Systems, AI & Future Markets, LLM Applications, Deep Learning, Computer Vision

Bennett University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

May 2024

CGPA: 8.75/10

Coursework: Algorithms, AI/ML, Deep Learning, NLP, HPC, OS, Prob & Statistics, Data Structures

Modern School, Barakhamba Road

School

Activities: President, Science Club | Vice President, Bits N Bytes (Computer Club)

Skills

AI / ML
PythonCUDA PythonTensorFlowPyTorchDeep LearningComputer VisionNLPCloud Computing
Programming
JavaSpring BootCC++VerilogReactJSTailwind CSSFlaskDjangoSQLMongoDB
Other
RAGMulti-Agent SystemsChain-of-ThoughtContext ManagementRESTful APIsMicroservicesEmbedded Systems

Projects

IPL Arbitrage Bot

2026

Automated cross-platform arbitrage bot exploiting pricing inefficiencies between Stake (sportsbook) and Kalshi (prediction market) for IPL cricket. Devigging, 12-step execution protocol, and risk-managed shadow/live modes.

PythonhttpxGraphQLREST APIArbitrage

People Grouper

2026

Interactive tool for random person picking, team generation, and one-to-many people organization with smart diversity-maximizing shuffles, lock-in preferences, and password-protected saveable boards.

Next.jsReactTailwind CSS

AI Poker Bot – Jump Trading Poker Competition

2026

Competitive AI poker agent for the Jump Trading x CMU AI Poker Tournament 2026. Features exact equity computation, Bayesian opponent modeling, Monte Carlo sampling, and position-aware strategies over a modified 27-card deck.

PythonGame TheoryBayesian InferenceMonte Carlo

Closed-Thought LLM

2026

Training-free latent reasoning for frozen LLMs. +13pp on GSM8K via KV-cache recurrence, split-layer generation, and answer-mass gating — zero training, zero fine-tuning.

PythonPyTorchLLMsCUDA

Who is Harry Potter

2026

Replication and extension of the 'Who is Harry Potter?' unlearning experiment - selectively erasing specific knowledge from LLMs while preserving general capabilities.

PythonPyTorchLLMs

Local Note Taker

2026

Privacy-first desktop app with an LLM orchestration layer using Ollama, engineering structured prompt chains and output parsing to generate meeting notes from Whisper-transcribed audio - zero external API dependencies.

PythonOllamaWhisper

LLM Features for Zulip

2026

LLM-powered agents for unread message summarization and topic-drift detection in open-source Slack alternative, with RESTful integration and latency-efficient prompt strategies for on-device inference.

PythonLLMsREST APIs

Diffusion Based Generative Modelling for Architectural Visualization

2024

Developed Diffusion and ControlNet based Interior & Exterior design generation models at the National University of Singapore. Research on applying generative AI techniques for architectural visualization and design under the guidance of Dr Tan Wee Kek.

PythonDiffusion ModelsControlNetComputer Vision

Autonomous FPV Drone

2024

End-to-end autonomous navigation system using ROS with PID controllers, computer vision pipelines, and path planning for real-time beacon identification and obstacle avoidance.

ROSC++Computer Vision

Reverse Engineering the YouTube Algorithm

2023

Built a graph crawler mapping YouTube's recommendation algorithm across 10K+ videos with ForceAtlas2 community detection. Published as 'Parametric Algorithmic Transformer Based Weighted YouTube Video Analysis' - a custom weighted scoring framework with modularity-based classification.

PythonGraph AnalysisTransformersResearch

Fire and Smoke Detection

2023

Architectured and designed code for models like CNNs, and developed models using skeleton codes of ResNet152 and VGG19 for detecting fire and smoke in visual input. Collected data, preprocessed it, augmented it to prevent skewness and used this custom dataset for training. Hyperparameter tuned the model based on results and deployed it using Streamlit.

PythonCNNsResNet152VGG19Streamlit

Terminal Portfolio

2022

A macOS-themed terminal personal website with draggable windows, embedded Spotify and YouTube players, and an interactive command-line interface.

Next.jsReactTailwind CSS

EV Swapping Solution

2022

Developed the Frontend and Backend for an app where users can find the nearest EV swap/charging station and book a swap while on route. Developed AI analysis for optimal map positions of EV Swap Stations and a mathematical algorithm for pricing to solve battery swap mismatch through an AI model trained for battery degradation prediction.

AI/MLFull StackMaps API

Blog

Thoughts on AI, cybersecurity, development, and more.

Whenever you hear about supercomputing, you understand it as a super fancy super-fast computer. Let's dive into what actually goes behind the scenes.

BrainAttic

Yes, it's a Sherlock Holmes reference.

Philosophy & Existence

Cold feet on the warm deck. It's a wonderful morning to be preoccupied by the meaninglessness of existence.

Sherlock Holmes, Elementary

Life is nothing but a summation of all your choices.

Personal thought

Every thought is built on the one before it. If each thought shapes the next, then the future was always going to happen this way. We're just watching it unfold.

Personal thought

A man can do what he wants, but can't want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human Nature

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways.

Russell A. Barkley

Good, honest people are always bad liars.

The Mentalist

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

Folk proverb

Strength & Virtue

Calm is a virtue of the strong.

Personal thought

No man is formed by nature for what he wasn't meant to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

Ad victorem spolias.

Senator William L. Marcy, 1832 — "To the victor go the spoils"

Power & Wisdom

Never be so polite you forget to wield power. Never wield such power that you forget to be polite.

Personal thought

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity

Contact

Feel free to reach out through any of the links below.