Shyam Sudhakaran
Research Engineer at Autodesk Research
United States
Summary
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RockstarShyam Sudhakaran is a research engineer with eight years of experience building ML-driven systems and scalable backend services across industry and academia. He blends applied machine learning research—evidenced by contributions to MarioGPT level generation—with production software engineering at companies like AWS and LiveMap, spanning full-stack, distributed systems, and graph neural networks. Currently at Autodesk Research and affiliated with IT University of Copenhagen, he bridges experimental research and practical implementation, often improving usability and tooling in open-source projects. He has a track record of turning novel research ideas into working code and datasets, and brings a pragmatic focus on sampling, data generation, and system robustness that accelerates prototyping to production.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
pytorch10
machine-learning10
gpt10
nlp10
python10
transformers9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shyamsn97/mario-gpt
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
[Neurips 2023] Generating Mario Levels with GPT2. Code for the paper "MarioGPT: Open-Ended Text2Level Generation through Large Language Models" https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05981
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 29 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Shyam contributed significantly to the development of the `mario-gpt` project, focusing on level generation using GPT-2 models. Their work included integrating and modifying the model, implementing code for sampling and generating levels, and improving the codebase's overall structure. They added functionality for level trimming and implemented features for time-lapse generation of levels, indicating a focus on model application and refinement. The user also improved usability by fixing print statements and streamlining the import process.
shyamsn97/controllable-ncas
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 2 pushes in 3 months
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