AI research practiceBengaluru, India

I study how objectives become behaviour.

I’m Shivam Pandey, an AI Research Engineer working across embodied intelligence, foundation models, interpretability, and the high-performance systems that make ambitious experiments possible.

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Learning
signals
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World
models
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Policies &
behaviour
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Systems &
evaluation
01 / objective02 / representation03 / policy04 / consequenceadaptive field
Policy field 001

Move through the field. Local trajectories reorganise around your intervention.

00 / Research thesis

Intelligence is not one layer of the stack.

My work connects the mathematical foundations of learning, the behaviour that emerges from them, and the systems required to test both. The useful questions live in the hand-offs: objective to representation, representation to action, and action to consequence.

01 / Research field

One programme.
Three levels of inquiry.

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Active direction

Objectives → behaviour

How reward, preference, and verifiable feedback shape what a policy actually learns—and where intended behaviour separates from observed action.

  • Reinforcement learning
  • Preference learning
  • Policy optimisation
  • Behavioural evaluation
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Active direction

Representations → futures

How latent world-action models encode possible futures, and whether a policy’s decisions depend on information that survives intervention and distribution shift.

  • World models
  • VLA policies
  • JEPA-style learning
  • Interpretability
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Established practice

Compute → evidence

The kernels, distributed systems, and evaluation infrastructure that shorten the distance between a mathematical question and a trustworthy empirical answer.

  • GPU kernels
  • Distributed training
  • Efficient inference
  • Scalable evaluation

02 / Published material

Follow the derivation.

All technical writing

A publication by Shivam Pandey

IMMORTAL MACHINE

Deeper essays, experiments, implementations, and research series—published once, connected back to the personal research practice.

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