Sanjay Siva

I’m a Computer Science and Engineering (AI & ML) undergrad at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, building AI systems that work outside the lab: offline, deployable, and useful to real people. I’m also a Technical Researcher & Engineer at SRM’s ISD Lab, where I develop reinforcement learning policies for autonomous drone navigation in GPS-denied environments using Unreal Engine 5 and AirSim. On the side, I’m training a fruit fly connectome to drive in simulation, which is my way of exploring where neuroscience and machine learning meet. Earlier this year I interned at ACA Technologies, where I built DocGen, a local-first desktop app that uses OCR and an on-device LLM to automate document workflows. Before that, I built a drone-based precision agriculture dashboard at Stabilitas. My other projects include CattleGo, a cattle breed identification app covering 40+ Indian breeds, and NEXUS, a supply chain disruption and recovery platform. I’ve placed at hackathons including SRM SDG (3rd), NLH AI × Legal at MIT (3rd), and BITS TechXcelerate (finalist), and I hold SAP certifications in Generative AI and ABAP Cloud. I’m interested in generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and document intelligence. Happy to chat about any of them at DevFest!