🎓 CampusCompass AI – Your Intelligent Campus Assistant

CampusCompass AI is an AI-powered student information assistant designed for Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology (SSIT), Tumakuru. It helps students quickly find reliable information about academic regulations, examinations, attendance, internal assessments, fees, hostel rules, library facilities, and other campus-related queries.

Powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, and Google’s Gemini AI, CampusCompass AI retrieves relevant information from a structured knowledge base before generating responses. It is designed to provide clear, student-friendly answers grounded in available documents rather than relying solely on an AI model’s general knowledge.

✨ Key Features

• 🤖 AI-Powered Chatbot: Ask campus-related questions using natural language.
• 📚 RAG-Based Knowledge Retrieval: Retrieves relevant passages from institutional documents to support accurate responses.
• 📄 Multi-Document Support: Load PDF, Markdown, and text files to build or update the knowledge base.
• 🔎 Semantic Search: Uses text embeddings and similarity-based retrieval to find relevant information.
• ✅ Source-Aware Responses: Provides relevant source and section information when available.
• 🛡️ Hallucination Reduction: Designed to identify missing or conflicting information instead of inventing policies, fees, deadlines, or regulations.
• 🎯 Student-Centric Assistance: Makes institutional information easier to access and understand.
• 🧪 Evaluation Framework: Supports testing answer accuracy, citation correctness, and appropriate refusals for unsupported questions.

🛠️ Technology Stack

• Programming Language: Python
• AI Model: Google Gemini
• Architecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Embeddings: Sentence Transformers
• Similarity Search: Vector-based semantic retrieval
• Interface: Gradio
• Development Environment: Google Colab
• Data Sources: Institutional documents and structured knowledge-base files

🎯 Problem Statement

Students often need to search through lengthy institutional documents or contact multiple departments to find answers to routine academic and administrative questions. CampusCompass AI aims to simplify this process by making verified institutional information searchable through a conversational interface.

🌟 Vision

To build a reliable, intelligent campus companion that makes institutional information accessible, reduces repetitive inquiries, and helps students make informed academic decisions.

🚀 Future Enhancements

• Integration with additional official institutional documents.
• Multilingual support for English and Kannada.
• Voice-based student interaction.
• Improved document citations and source verification.
• Web-based deployment with a responsive interface.
• Regular knowledge-base updates and expanded academic support.

CampusCompass AI — Your Campus. Your Questions. Intelligent Answers.