Shubhaankar Gupta

Sophomore @UChicago

I’m a sophomore at the University of Chicago double majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. I am also an Odyssey Scholar and a Rise Global Winner declared by Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust. I’m actively involved with research in data science, generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision. I’m the founding director of the Machine Learning Group at UChicago ACM. I am also passionate about financial markets, international relations, government, and am learning 中文 .

↠ In August 2024, I interned as visiting scientist at the Chair of Visual Computing at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in Nuremberg, Germany. Our team developed a framework to segment objects with bounding-box input and output in videos with Meta’s SAM-2. We won 2nd place in the Google DeepMind Perception Test Challenge at ECCV 2024.

↠ In Summer 2024, I interned as a data science analyst at Gallus Insights, a banking data services firm, and worked directly with company leadership and the CEO to develop strategies for data management using quantitative methods on Cloud.

↠ I served as a research assistant under Prof. Shaoda Wang and Prof. Daniel Chen at the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics. I used LLMs and algorithmic techniques to analyze, classify, and study the relationship between judicial outcomes and expert witness backgrounds.

↠ From 2021 to 2023, I worked under Prof. Bernhard Egger at MIT and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and developed a method to pre-train CNN models with synthetic 3D image databases as first-author. Published in the Pre-registration in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2021. Link

↠ In 2023, I graduated as head boy from my high school, Delhi Public School RK Puram.

Visit my LinkedIn to view past experiences.

I am always open to guiding high schoolers — and beyond — in navigating opportunities, college admissions, machine learning, or life. Feel free to contact me!