Ujjwal Sharma

Ujjwal Sharma is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, working at the Research Center for Sustainable Investments and Insurance (a joint center with ASR Nederland). His research focuses on building AI systems for business applications, particularly analyzing abstract themes in large-scale multimodal data.

• Key Contributions: Co-created Exquisitor, a visual search system for millions of images/videos; developed AI techniques for analyzing restaurant review images and corporate sustainability messaging.

Research Interests: His work spans artificial intelligence, business analytics, and multimodal data analysis. He specializes in end-to-end AI pipelines from data wrangling to production deployment.

Notable Projects:

• drone-recon: 3D model reconstruction from monocular images
• nlp-mm: Image captioning using recurrent units
• generative_models: Implementation of Naive Bayes and VAE for MNIST dataset

Technical Expertise: TensorFlow, Python, C++, GPU/OpenMP programming, VAEs, multimodal systems, and production-scale deployments.