Akshat Shaw
Akshat Shaw
Data Science | AI | LLMs | IIT Roorkee
📍 IIT Roorkee, India
📧 akshat_s1@mt.iitr.ac.in
🔗 LinkedIn | GitHub
💡 Interests
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Machine Learning & Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Data Analysis & Data Science
🎓 Education
B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (2022 – 2026)
CGPA: 8.3
🧠 Experience
AI Intern @ REVnPlus (Apr 2025 – Present)
- Deployed autonomous agents on Railways with integrated AWS S3 for scalable cloud-based execution.
- Built vision-language pipelines to extract structured data from images.
- Integrated and automated inference APIs for stable ML pipelines.
Summer Intern @ SPARK4AI, IIT Kharagpur (Feb 2024 – Apr 2024)
- Worked on
txt2mcq: LLMs for MCQ generation in EdTech. - Fine-tuned transformer-based LLMs and benchmarked against classical NLP pipelines.
🚀 Projects
GPT-2 from Scratch in PyTorch
- Recreated the full GPT-2 architecture using PyTorch with custom attention, tokenization, and positional encoding modules.
- Used MLOps tools like MLflow & Wandb for streamlined training & versioning.
AI Interview Trainer (Techshila 2.0, IITR)
- Built LLM-based interview question generator with domain selection.
- Used Mistral 7B fine-tuned via Q-LoRA and deployed using HuggingFace + Flask + Whisper ASR.
Stock Sentiment Analysis
- Scraped company news & prices, vectorized with word2vec + NLTK.
- Trained BERT + ensemble models to generate buy/sell signals, deployed via Streamlit.
AI-Generated Text Detection (Vision & Language Group, IITR)
- Built Streamlit tool to detect AI-generated essays using Tf-Idf and classifiers.
- Compared various embeddings (Tf-Idf, Word2vec, FastText) with SOTA accuracy.
🛠️ Technical Skills
Languages: Python, C++
Libraries: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, HuggingFace, Flask, FastAPI
Tools: Wandb, MLflow, Streamlit, VS Code, Google Colab, CrewAI, Julep
Platforms: AWS, GitHub
Languages Known: English, Hindi
🏆 Achievements
- 🥈 Silver Medal, 2nd Overall - ML PS @ Techshila, IITR
- 🏏 Runner-up — METES Cricket League 2024
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🧠 Kaggle 3X Expert Dataset Expert Rank: 843 / 15,209
📢 Leadership
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Academic Reinforcement Program, IIT Roorkee (2023 – Present)
- Mentored 80+ freshmen in C++ (MTC-101), provided reference material and coding guidance.