Shuvam Keshari

About Me

Hi, I'm Shuvam Keshari, a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin currently pursuing my Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on Power Electronics and Computer Vision.

I'm managing and re-designing the Power Electronics Lab (ECE462L/ECE394) for 40 senior/graduate students under the supervision of Dr. Brian Johnson. Previously, I was advised by Dr. Dhiraj Murthy and Dr. Anna Wilkinson on an ML project based on social media data.

Prior to joining UT, I had been implementing my expertise in these fields in developing really cool cars as an employee of Jaguar Land Rover since 2020. I aspire to use my skillset to develop products that realize my vision of a greener tomorrow through sustainable transportation where autonomous and connected cars are a common sight. I dream of humanity reaching a type II Kardashev civilization soon where a Matrioshka brain would possibly become a reality!

I hope you can learn a little more about me here. Please feel free to reach out to me with any additional questions that you might have!

Industry & Research Experience

UT Austin

Generative AI Researcher

Check out my Google Scholar profile here for my research work!

UT Austin Power Electronics Lab

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Managing and re-designing the Power Electronics Lab (ECE462L/ECE394) for 40 senior/graduate students

Texas Instruments

Systems Engineering Intern

Optimizing performance by comparison of GaN and Si devices using TI's latest gate driver evaluation module for notebook charging application: USB-C Power Delivery at 140W-240W @600kHz with 5A input
Designing PCB co-layout for 2 different charging controllers

UT Austin CML

Graduate Research Assistant

Developing Vision-based computational models/pipelines to identify mechanisms underlying electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS)-related social media exposure and ENDS use among young adults and examine the role of acculturation as a moderator of these mechanisms
Investigating social media data using Oracle Cloud (scraping), and deploying custom Yolo and BERT models (inference) to explore multi-modal ML techniques
Supervising undergraduate research assistants working on this project as part of the Computational Media Lab

Jaguar Land Rover

Power Electronics Software Engineer

Invention disclosure filed for electric vehicle charging hardware and software
Simulated 11kW and 22kW on-board charger circuits including loss and thermal modeling using tools like PSIM, LTSpice, and MATLAB
Closely collaborated with teams in the UK to deliver major topologies including totem-pole PFC and resonant CLLC ensuring ZVS & ZCS operation
Investigated Computer Vision research and development projects like driving assist technology and fault prediction using ML for validation

Webber Electrocorp (startup)

Founding Chief Power Electronics Hardware Engineer

Helped launch the most well-funded campus startup in Sept. 2019
Built initial 3kW EV charger prototypes for the startup and mentored/recruited several candidates
Designed modular power and driver boards for implementing 400W and 1kW BLDC motor controllers
Developed the initial website and supervised public relations for the company

ITC Limited

Operations Research Intern

Developed a comprehensive data model for “Mushroom Cultivation in Tobacco Barn” for generating an affordable and alternate income for the tobacco farmers in rural areas of South India
Optimized and established a business opportunity that could be beneficial for the company, farmers, and society at large involving multiple stakeholders

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Aug 2022 - Present

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently enrolled as a full-time graduate student with coursework as follows:
- Power management Integrated Circuits, Power electronics devices & systems, Fundamentals of Power electronics, Electromagnetic Field Theory
- Generative AI, Brain-Computer interaction, Autonomous and Connected EVs, Advanced Computer Vision, Applied Machine Learning
Scholarships awarded: UT Austin TPEG scholarship, Professional Development Award
Leadershape Institute: Discussed critical social and global issues, embracing a healthy disregard for the impossible

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

July 2016 - July 2020

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering (major) and Computer Science (minor)

Won the Silver Trophy @ the Inter IIT Tech Meet 8.0 held at IIT Roorkee
Power Electronics Team Head @ Electric Vehicle Group: Developed an EV in-house. [Read] [Watch]
PCB Designer @ Skytex, Supervisor: Dr. Subrahmanyam Saderla: Designed the PCB for the wireless communication module of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle at IIT Kanpur
Associate Embedded Engineer @ Alive Home: Debugged and validated ioT Smart Switch Modules
Space Club Lead @ Space Technology Student’s Society: Chief editor for 'Moonwalk' and Manager of Space Technology Awareness Camp in Eastern India

Research Projects

Charger Design for light EVs

Bachelors dissertation advised by Dr. Dipankar Debnath

Designed an efficient AC charger for light electric vehicles using interleaved boost PFC followed by PSFB topology. Also designed additional auxiliary power supplies using the flyback and buck converters, fabricated and tested the hardware. Was honored with the Systems Society award for the best thesis.

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Computer Vision assisted Emotion Analysis

Supervisor: Dr. Manas K Mandal, Dr. Priyadarshi Patnaik

As a Computer Vision Research Assistant, I designed an algorithm for measuring facial asymmetry and emotion incongruity using Convolutional Neural Networks. Enhanced accuracy of Facial emotion recognition model from 70% to 87% using custom dataset and Amazon Web Services. Also developed a Graphic user interface for easy deployment.