Akshita Gupta
ELLIS PhD Student at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolAkshita Gupta is an ELLIS PhD student at TU Darmstadt with nine years of hands-on experience in machine learning and computer vision, blending research internships at Apple and Microsoft with applied roles at Vector Institute and Inception Institute of AI. She has worked across academia and industry on topics from attention-based visual dialog and acoustic scene modeling to prompt engineering for large language models and bias analysis. Comfortable with Python, NumPy and scikit-learn, she also contributes code and a public portfolio on GitHub, demonstrating a practical focus on reproducible research and deployment. Akshita’s background includes teaching and mentoring roles, plus experience translating research prototypes into analytics and dashboard tools during an Outreachy stint at Mozilla. Her trajectory shows a pattern of moving between deep research and product-facing internships, indicating an ability to both publish and ship ML systems that aim to improve real-world outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4 GPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.3/4 GPA at DIT UNIVERSITYTechnischen Universität DarmstadtMasters of Applied Science (MASc), Computer Engineering, Masters of Applied Science (MASc), Computer Engineering at University of Guelph
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (178)
datasets10
torchvision10
computer-vision10
mean-stack10
mozilla10
machine-learning10
google-chrome10
openimages10
microsoft-edge9
safari9
detectron9
firefox9
unity3d9
testing9
expressjs9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akshitac8/akshitac8.github.io
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 158 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
akshitac8/OW-DETR
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
[CVPR 2022] Official Pytorch code for OW-DETR: Open-world Detection Transformer
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pytorchtransformerstransformerdetection-transformerdetr
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