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Founder · Engineer · Researcher

Shorya Kumar

AI systems, edge hardware and systems security. Products shipped to real users, research published at ESORICS.

Founding CTO of an AI startup, ex-Databricks, IIT Kanpur double major (CGPA 9.7). Research stints at CISPA Helmholtz Center and the University of Toronto. Equally drawn to products people use and research that moves what is understood.

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Experiments & ongoing
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Publications

3 entries
2025
ESORICS 2025
NICraft: Malicious NIC Firmware-based Cache Attack
Amit Choudhari, Shorya Kumar, Christian Rossow
2025
SUBSTACK
The Coming Voice Revolution
Essay by Shorya Kumar · All posts on Substack ↗
2023
PREPRINT · SUBMITTED TO ICLR 2024
HIWE: Scene Importance Weighted Encoding for Fast NeRF Training
S. Durvasula, Shorya Kumar, R. Liang, M. Shehata, S. Panneer, N. Jain, N. Vijaykumar

Rankings

Competitive record
YC Startup School · $25k credits Databricks US offer · only one from IITK that year Sridhar Memorial Prize · top CPI, EE Mitacs Globalink Scholar · 2023 KVPY SX Fellowship · 2018 Alphagrep Merit Scholarship Academic Excellence Awards 2019–22 INPhO & INChO qualifier

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Skills & coursework
AI / ML
  • LLMs
  • Voice AI
  • LoRA fine-tuning
  • Flux
  • Diffusion models
  • PyTorch
  • NeRF
  • Edge AI
Systems
  • Linux kernel
  • Cache microarchitecture
  • Network protocols
  • Sockets
  • Wireshark
Infra
  • Modal
  • Docker
  • Git
  • Bash
  • Linux
Languages & web
  • Python
  • C
  • C++
  • JavaScript
  • ReactJS
  • Django
  • Chrome extensions
Hardware
  • 3D printing
  • Edge devices
  • Embedded prototyping
  • PCB integration
Coursework
  • Advanced Algorithms
  • Modern Cryptology
  • Theory of Computation
  • Compilers
  • Probability & Stats (A*)
  • ML (A*)
  • Linear Algebra