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Kushal S M

Kushal S M

Engineer at Emergent, building AI-powered apps

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Bangalore, India
Joined January 2025
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Summary

Kushal S M is an engineer specializing in Applied AI and multi-agent systems, currently working at Emergent where he focuses on building AI-powered applications using natural language. His work involves developing innovative solutions in AI-driven platforms and user experience. kushalsm+2
He has a strong entrepreneurial background, having founded HYPEHBOX, a platform designed to enhance user onboarding in SaaS applications, and served as a Founding Engineer at Elzo AI, an AI-driven user research chatbot. These experiences highlight his ability to conceptualize, develop, and launch AI-powered products. kushalsm+1
Kushal is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he pursued a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering. His academic background in aerospace combined with his professional focus on AI suggests an interdisciplinary approach to problem-solving. kushalsm+2
He is also an active developer with several notable projects, including browser extensions like Purpose Use and ChatSync, AI-powered image generation with Facemax, and contributions to a Hugging Face computer vision course. His work also includes academic research on Graph Neural Networks. kushalsm+2

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GGNNs : Generalizing GNNs using Residual Connections and Weighted Message Passing

November 1, 2023

A research paper proposing innovative modifications to Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by integrating weighted message passing and residual connections, leading to improved learning, faster convergence, and superior performance in node-level prediction tasks.

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Contributed chapters on Model Optimization and deployment for Hugging Face's Computer Vision Course

Contributions to a computer vision course covering aspects of model optimization and deployment.

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