class ArpanMukherjee:
def __init__(self):
self.name = "Arpan Mukherjee"
self.role = "Robotics & AI Engineer"
self.university = "UEM Kolkata — B.Tech RAI 2024–2028"
self.cgpa = "8.0 / 10.0"
self.location = "Kolkata, West Bengal 🇮🇳"
self.languages = ["Python", "C++", "C", "SQL"]
@property
def research_focus(self):
return [
"🔬 Mechanistic Interpretability of Transformer Models",
"🤖 Autonomous Locomotion & Embedded Robotics",
"🧠 LLM Agents, RAG Architectures & NLP",
]
@property
def current_research(self):
return {
"project" : "Transformer Internals Visualizer",
"model" : "GPT-2 Small (117M parameters)",
"method" : "Activation patching · IOI circuit replication",
"goal" : ">85% circuit faithfulness on held-out prompts",
}
@property
def highlights(self):
return [
"✅ Merged PR → scikit-learn (#32677) — +15% pipeline perf",
"✅ Bug-fix PR → SecuScan GSSoC '26 (#320)",
"📄 Peer-reviewed paper presented @ TSSC 2026, UEM Kolkata",
"🏢 AI/ML Intern — Edunet Foundation × IBM SkillsBuild",
]
def fun_facts(self):
return "♟️ Chess player | 🧩 Puzzle solver | 🌐 Open source contributor"
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🔬 ML / Deep Learning / Research
🤖 LLM Agents & NLP
🦾 Robotics & Embedded Systems
💻 Languages & Systems
📊 Data Science & Visualization
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| Project | Contribution | Impact | Status |
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| 🔬 scikit-learn | PR #32677 — Feature-scaling preprocessing optimization | +15% pipeline throughput across benchmark datasets |  |
| 🛡️ SecuScan (GSSoC '26) | PR #320 — SQLite variable-limit bug fix + regression tests | Fixed silent data corruption; tests approved after maintainer review |  |
💡 Open source is where research meets real-world engineering. I contribute to projects I actually use.
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| Title | Bluetooth-Enabled 3D Printed Quadruped Spider Robot on Arduino Nano |
| Authors | S. Banerjee, A. Ghosh, S. Bhadra, R. Saha, P. Das, A. Mukherjee |
| Venue | 1st International Conference on Transformative Social Sciences (TSSC 2026), UEM Kolkata |
| Date | February 2026 |
| Type | Peer-reviewed conference paper · Certificate awarded |
| Contribution | Algorithmic gait design, wireless control architecture, hardware fabrication |
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🤖 AI/ML Intern — Edunet Foundation × IBM SkillsBuild
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| 🏅 Achievement | 📅 | Details |
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| ✅ scikit-learn Contributor | Dec 2025 | Merged PR into one of the world's most-used ML libraries — +15% pipeline performance |
| ✅ GSSoC '26 Contributor | 2026 | Bug-fix PR confirmed for SecuScan; regression tests approved by maintainer |
| 📄 Conference Author | Feb 2026 | Peer-reviewed paper accepted & presented at TSSC 2026, UEM Kolkata |
| ☁️ Oracle OCI AI Certified | Nov 2025 | Valid until Nov 2027 |
"The best research combines rigorous methodology with the courage to ask questions no one has thought to ask yet."
I'm open to collaborating on mechanistic interpretability research, robotics builds, AI agents, open source, and anything that advances science or makes a real-world impact.
⚡ Building the Future of Robotics & AI — One Commit at a Time ⚡