Shailesh Sridhar
AI ML Engineer at University of Pennsylvania
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShailesh Sridhar is an AI/ML engineer with 8 years of experience building production ML systems and conducting interpretability research, currently focused on transformer-based architectures for vision and language. He bridges research and engineering—publishing first-author work and earning a thesis runner-up award while delivering quantized edge models, semantic search, and containerized ML services in production. Recent projects include improving 3D lung CT malignancy prediction via hybrid foundation-model fine-tuning and developing lightweight, efficient pipelines for face authentication and OCR at scale. His research on mitigating missingness bias in feature attribution and uncovering spurious behaviors in vision-language models reflects a deep interest in AI transparency. Based in Chicago, he thrives on applying interpretability to healthcare and sustainability problems and contributing to open-source tooling. A detail often overlooked: he combines statistical, optimization, and systems skills to push models from explainable prototypes into robust, resource-constrained deployments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at PES University10th grade CBSE, 10 CGPA, 10th grade CBSE, 10 CGPA at GEAR Innovative International School12th Grade PUC, 92.6%, 12th Grade PUC, 92.6% at The Amaatra AcademyMaster of Science and Engineering, Data Science, Master of Science and Engineering, Data Science at University of Pennsylvania
Kannada, Hindi, English, Tamil, French
Github Skills (40)
classifier10
grad-cam9
xai9
javascript9
css9
visualizations9
php9
html9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
react8
classification8
pyqt8
segmentation8
image-classification7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ShaileshSridhar2403/ShaileshSridhar2403.github.io
Oct 2020 - Feb 2026
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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ShaileshSridhar2403/Parsimony-Computing-Gene-Expression-Inference-with-LALR
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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