Selvakumar Murugan
Senior Principal Research Engineer at Saama AI Research
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolSelvakumar Murugan is a Senior Principal Research Engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and deep learning to real-world problems, currently leading research efforts at Saama AI Research. Proficient in Python, C++, PyTorch and TensorFlow, he bridges rigorous engineering with research-driven experimentation and is completing an MTech in Artificial Intelligence from BITS Pilani. His background includes software engineering roles at Cisco and Aricent, giving him production-grade systems experience alongside research fluency. Beyond code, he pursues interactive art, 3D modelling and painting, and brings a long-standing interest in linguistics, culture and cognitive architectures to his AI work. A proud free-software enthusiast and aspiring member of the AGI community, he blends technical depth with philosophical curiosity and a taste for unconventional ideas.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at Pondicherry University
Tamil, English
Github Skills (120)
datasets10
extensible10
common-lisp10
browser9
emacs9
python9
spider9
crawler9
scrapy9
text-annotation9
jupyterlab9
nuxt9
scraper9
lisp9
jupyter9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vanangamudi/tamil-lm2
Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
language model for tamil
Contributions:73 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 2 years 10 months
language-model
vanangamudi/newspaper-crawler-scripts
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
set of scripts for crawling newspaper websites.
Contributions:65 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonscrapyspidernewspapercrawling
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