Vaibhav Shukla

Astrophysics MSc · High-Energy Astrophysics × ML / GenAI

Erlangen, Germany · github.com/whyvav

6.8 years ago, this repository was born as hello-world — its entire contents: “My first repository.” My GitHub bio still reads “Can't Code.”
Consider everything around you the rebuttal.

I'm an early-career researcher working at the seam of high-energy astrophysics and machine learning. My MSc thesis at the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory (FAU / ECAP) studied the X-ray evolution of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud — including the now-confirmed remnant SNR J0500−6512, combining single-object spectral analysis with population-level statistics over the complete LMC sample.

Alongside it I build ML & generative-AI systems: vision–language models that detect bubble-like structures in multiwavelength surveys, and agent-based simulations of how misinformation moves through networks of persona-LLMs. Each instrument in this console is a real algorithm from that work.

Academic site All repositories LinkedIn MSc Thesis (PDF)

Selected publications

R. G. Maurya, V. Shukla, et al. — Simulating Misinformation Propagation in Social Networks using LLMs, LASS @ ACM CIKM 2025 Outstanding Paper

R. G. Maurya, V. Shukla, S. Panat — An Empirical Exploration of Socioeconomic Linguistic Bias in Text-to-Image Generation, SRW @ EACL 2026

V. Shukla, et al. — Vision–Language Model Detection of Interstellar-Medium Structures in prep · A&A / ADASS