Shirish Shekhar Jha
PhD Candidate in EECS at IISER Bhopal
Specializing in robotic manipulators, integrating computer vision and reinforcement learning to build autonomous systems. Passionate about solving complex problems from NLP models for under-resourced languages to designing novel control systems for assistive technologies.
01. Experience
Data Trainee
May 2024 – July 2024Probo Media Technologies
Developed an end-to-end news data pipeline and applied LLMs for NLP tasks, improving accuracy by 15%.
BS Thesis Intern
Jan 2024 – May 2024IIT Mandi
Engineered a robotic manipulator with CV and RL, reducing task execution time by 25%.
Research Intern
Dec 2022 – July 2023IIIT Ranchi
Led NLP research for Urdu, achieving global rank 1 in the LT-EDI 2023 Hope Speech Identification task.
Summer Intern
May 2022 – July 2022IISER Bhopal
Designed an eye-controlled wheelchair using EOG signals with 85% command accuracy.
02. Publications & Conferences
Robotic Manipulator Research
CASE 2024 | IEEE Xplore
September 2024
Hope Speech Identification for Urdu (4 Papers)
RANLP 2023 | ACL Anthology
September 2023
Conference Participation
Volunteer & Attendee
Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2024, ACM Optimization Winter School, Amazon MLSS, ACM Data Science Summer School
03. Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Computer Vision (ECS-312)
EECS, IISER Bhopal | Fall 2024
Led weekly tutorials, graded assignments, and held office hours for 91 undergraduate students.
04. Key Projects
MARL for Capture The Flag
Implemented IQL, DQN, and MAPPO algorithms to evaluate cooperative vs. competitive agent behaviors.
View ProjectGreenery Quantification from Imagery
Used a U-Net architecture with transfer learning for semantic segmentation of urban vegetation.
View ProjectUAV-based Strawberry Farm Classification
Built a deep learning model to classify farm growth stages from UAV data, improving accuracy by 12%.
View Project05. Technical Skills
Languages & Databases
AI & ML Frameworks
Robotics & Domains
Tools & Platforms
06. Volunteering & Leadership
Volunteer, Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2024
Assisted in organizing and facilitating a premier national conference on control systems.
Football Champion, IISER Bhopal Intra-College Sports Fest
Led and collaborated with the team to secure the championship title.
Core Member, Mayuraa Dance Club
Actively participated in organizing and performing in university-wide events like flash mobs.
07. Get In Touch
I'm always open to discussing robotics research, collaboration opportunities, or new projects. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to connect!
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