Hello, hope you are doing great ! Thanks for visiting. This is my home on the internet. This website contains details about my projects, experience and resume. This also has a blog where I intend to post on various topics and tutorials regularly. If you are interested in any of these, please check them out by navigating through the above links.

About me:

By the way, my name is Shanmukha and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Vision & Robotics at Auburn University under (Dr.Aakur). I previously did my Masters in AI & Robotics at University of California San Diego (UCSD) and Bachelors in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Raipur (NIT RR), India.

Fields of interest: My major field of interest lies at the intersection of Computer Vision, Robotics and Multimodal open world understanding.

Rationale behind my interests: The logic is very simple behind this. Computer Vision is the art of imparting sight to computers and Reinforcement Learning is the process of enabling general intelligence in computers thereby giving them the true powers (Adaptability and Self learning capability) of Artificial General Intelligence (we are nowhere close to this). My slight preference of Computer Vision over Natural Language Processing is because, if someday I had to choose only 1 sense out of 5 (vision, touch, taste, smell and sound) to keep with me I would go with vision. I guess, that’s what most people would go with. Because, the way one sees things, shapes up the way one thinks…is what I believe in. Be it a human or a robot.