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.
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.
01
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
02
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
03
Established practice
Compute → evidence
The kernels, distributed systems, and evaluation infrastructure that shorten the distance between a mathematical question and a trustworthy empirical answer.