Sumuk Shashidhar
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSumuk Shashidhar is a research-focused CS PhD candidate at UIUC with six years of experience building ML and data-driven systems across industry leaders like Google, Hugging Face, Rivian, Yahoo, and Prime Intellect. He works at the intersection of continual learning, reinforcement learning for hard-to-verify tasks, and large-scale infrastructure, and currently contributes to Gemini research at Google. Sumuk led development of Yourbench at Hugging Face and has experience shipping open-source evaluation tooling as well as production-grade infra at scale. Based in Chicago, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering, often tackling projects that bridge evaluation research and deployable systems. An under-the-radar strength is his fluency moving between exploratory research and practical implementation—making prototypes that scale into real products.
6 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi, Kannada, English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (120)
expressjs10
web-application10
python10
mlops10
lora10
llmops10
xpu10
transformer10
gpt10
llama10
amd10
cuda10
pytorch10
inference10
tpu10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sumukshashidhar/quick
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 213 commits, 143 pushes in 4 days
1sigmoid/zeta-backend
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 129 commits in 25 days
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