Technical Work

Technical contributions, presentations, and engineering work.

Current Projects & Exploration

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Personal Research
Training LLMs from Scratch
Harsh Sharma
Building GPT-2 scale models from scratch to deeply understand transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and training dynamics
Implementing tokenizers, positional encodings, and custom training loops
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Open Source
MCP (Model Context Protocol) Servers
Harsh Sharma
Developing MCP servers for enhanced LLM tool use and context management, enabling better integration between language models and external systems
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Research
Reasoning Models & Reinforcement Learning
Harsh Sharma
Exploring chain-of-thought reasoning, RLHF techniques, and implementation of reasoning capabilities in smaller language models
Focus on DeepSeek-R1 architectures and GRPO training methods

Hackathon Wins

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🏆 Triple Win
Verdictron - AI Product Research Co-Pilot
Harsh Sharma, Barathwaj Anandan, Sanil, Baladhurgesh
Multimodal AI Hackathon at Weights & Biases HQ. Built an AI assistant that analyzes product screenshots, creates instant knowledge bases, and generates purchase insights using SambaNova vision models and Google Gemini
Features: Screenshot analysis, automated research, podcast generation, smart alerts
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🏆 First Place
Life Copilot - AI-Powered Personal Assistant
Div Garg, Harsh Sharma, and team
LangChain AGI Hackathon (2023). Built an advanced AI assistant that integrates vision-language models (VLMs), large language models (LLMs), and MultiON AI to perform real-world tasks through browser automation
Features: Summarizes content, provides services, makes recommendations, and automates processes. Demo showed it ordering food by searching restaurants, identifying options, and placing orders through delivery services

Technical Contributions at NVIDIA

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NVIDIA
Triton Inference Server Integration for Maxine SDK
Harsh Sharma and Maxine Team
Integrated Maxine SDK with Triton Inference Server for large-scale inference with efficient batch processing and optimized computational performance
Enabled enterprise-scale deployment of AI video features
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CMU Research
Culinary Skills Evaluation using Hidden Markov Models
Harsh Sharma, Prof. Howie Choset, Matt Travers
Biorobotics Lab - Developed HMM-based regression system for skill evaluation with integrated pose estimation pipeline
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DARPA SubT
Multi-Robot Gazebo Simulation for Subterranean Challenge
Harsh Sharma and CMU Biorobotics Lab
Developed complete simulation environment for multi-robot coordination in underground environments using ROS and Gazebo
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Carnegie Robotics
Bundle Adjustment for Mobile Robot Localization
Harsh Sharma
Formulated and implemented bundle adjustment optimization in Ceres Solver for offline localization with AprilTags
Sub-centimeter localization accuracy achieved
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CMU Capstone
Goal-Conditioned Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving
Harsh Sharma with Ridecell
Implemented imitation learning for traffic agent modeling in CARLA with DeepLabV3+ segmentation and multi-object tracking
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NVIDIA
2D Image Registration Algorithms in CUDA
Harsh Sharma
Implemented classical computer vision algorithms for 2D image registration using CUDA/C++ for real-time performance