Shorya Kumar
Curious about almost everything. Currently building AI at iCurious.ai. I love books, algorithms, and connecting ideas across disciplines.
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selected work
Protago AI — Personalised Storybook Pipeline
Built an end-to-end storybook generation product: text-to-image via Flux diffusion models with LoRA fine-tuning on Modal, combined with a BFS face-swap pipeline …
iCurious AI — Voice AI Companion for Kids
Architected a real-time voice AI pipeline (STT + LLM inference + TTS) for a hardware AI companion, deployed on both edge hardware and cloud backends. Designed a …
HIWE — Scene Importance Weighted Encoding for NeRF
Research at the University of Toronto. Identified that uniform parameter allocation in grid-based NeRF encodings (like iNGP) fails on large outdoor scenes. …
NICraft — Malicious NIC Firmware Cache Side-Channel
Security research at CISPA Helmholtz Center. Uncovered a Prime+Probe gadget in the Linux kernel's TCP/IP stack IP reassembly path, enabling a cache side-channel …
recent writing
- The Contact is the Asset: D2C Marketing Apr 2026
- Closed Systems Leak: A Simple Reminder Apr 2026
- The Production Bug That Made Me Relearn React Apr 2026
- The Physics of our Voice: Part 1 Mar 2026
- Can You Win the Trader's Card Game? An Inside Look at a Wall Street Interview Sep 2025