Shivam Abhilash

Chairperson, Students and Young Professionals IEEE Computer Society MGAB

Engineering Lead, ZS Associates

Visiting Faculty (Applied Artificial Intelligence and Expert System), North Cap University

Shivam is an accomplished and visionary technology leader, making a profound impact in the dynamic world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and beyond. Graduating with distinction from the prestigious Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India, he possesses a profound expertise in NLP, Generative AI, Graph Search, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, and Knowledge Graph.

• Chairperson, Students and Young Professionals IEEE Computer Society MGAB
• Engineering Lead, ZS Associates
• Visiting Faculty (Applied Artificial Intelligence and Expert System), North Cap University

Shivam's passion for research is  evident through his extensive  contributions to academia. He has  been involved in over 30+ impactful  projects and published 15+ research  articles and papers in renowned  platforms like IEEE and Springer.  Some of his recent publications  include "Graph Enabled NLU  Chatbot," "Semi-Automated Ontology  Prediction," and "Video Indexing  System Based on Multimodal  Information Extraction Using  Combination of ASR and OCR." He is  currently working on a Book Chapter  exploring the Application of Machine  Learning and Deep Learning in  disease diagnosis.

• Chairperson | New Initiative Committee | MGA Board , 02/2024 - Present
• Advisor | Students and Young Professional Committee | MGA Board , 02/2024 - Present
• Executive Committee Member | Technical and Conference Activities Board, 02/2024 - Present
• Member of Nomination Committee, IEEE Computer Society, 01/2023 - Present
• Vice Chair of MGAB for Students and Young Professionals, IEEE Computer Society, 01/2022 - 02/2024
• Mentoring Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee MGAB, IEEE Computer Society, 02/2021 - 03/2022
• Vice Chair (Collaboration), Students and Young Professionals, IEEE Computer Society, 06/2020 - 01/2022, Pune, Maharashtra, India, As the Vice Chair for Collaboration, he was responsible for any sort of collaboration with IEEE Computer Society Students and Young Professionals.
• Mentoring Co-Chair, Awards and Recognition Committee MGAB, IEEE Computer Society, 09/2019 - 02/2021
• Chairperson, Student and Young Professionals, Asia Pacific, IEEE Computer Society, 12/2019 - 06/2020, As the SYP Representative for Region 10, he led two distinct teams: IEEE CS SYP R10 - India Team and IEEE CS SYP R10 (non-India) Team, fostering collaboration and growth within the community.
• Program Co-Chair, AICSSYC, IEEE Computer Society, 08/2019 - 11/2019, As a Program Co-Chair, he collaborated with a team of 40+ volunteers, actively contributing to key decisions for the congress.

Shivam is a renowned keynote  speaker who has delivered more  than 50 talks worldwide, including  engagements at IEEE Region 8 and  IEEE Region 10. Some of the notable  events where he has shared his  visionary insights include: 

• Digital Transformation  Workshop in Egypt (2023) 

• Srilanka Students and Young  Professional Congress (2022) 

• World IoT Hackathon in  Chandigarh (2020) 

• IEEE CS Region 10 Summer  School in Vizag (2023) 

• Computer Society India  Symposium in Kerala (2019) 

• Received the prestigious Richard E. Merwin scholarship from IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section for his exceptional expertise .
• Got recognized by official Linkedin Account of IEEE for his research contributions to natural language processing including generative AI and LLMs, graph embedding, search and signal processing .
• Received IEEE Young Professionals Hall of Fame Award for work in 2023.
• Selected as one of the 20 in their 20s honorees in the field of Computer Science and Engineering by IEEE CS.
• Invited as Chief Guest at Sai Sri Ram College of Engineering for IEEE Computer Society TechX Madras .