https://scolarbotapp.streamlit.app/
ScholarBot is a state-of-the-art, multi-modal conversational AI architected to serve as a centralized, interactive, and user-friendly platform for Pakistani students seeking guidance on international Master's scholarships.
This project was developed for the Artificial Intelligence course at the University of the Punjab, Gujranwala Campus. It demonstrates a complete development lifecycle, from initial concept to a professionally structured, deployed, and robust final product. The core of the project is a powerful Large Language Model (Google Gemini-1.5-Flash) guided by a detailed persona and served through a polished, responsive user interface built with Streamlit.
Interact with the live, deployed version of ScholarBot here: https://scolarbotapp.streamlit.app/
ScholarBot has been engineered with a focus on reliability, user experience, and professional software design patterns.
🗣️ Advanced Conversational AI: The bot's intelligence is powered by the Google Gemini-1.5-Flash model. Instead of a brittle, keyword-based filter, the bot's behavior is governed by a strict, detailed system persona. This ensures it stays on topic, politely declines inappropriate requests, and maintains a professional, encouraging tone, allowing it to understand a wide range of user intents.
🧠 Stateful Conversational Memory: A robust state management system (st.session_state) provides a true multi-turn conversational memory, allowing for natural follow-up questions and context-aware dialogue.
🖼️ Multi-modal Input: Supports both text and image uploads, allowing users to ask for feedback on visual documents like CVs and resumes.
🎨 Professional & Responsive UI: A custom-themed, visually coherent dark mode interface built with custom CSS that works flawlessly on both desktop and mobile devices.
🔴 Live Streaming Responses: Assistant messages are streamed token-by-token with a typing indicator to create an engaging, real-time chat experience with robust error handling.
⚙️ Intuitive User Controls: Features a persistent sidebar with controls to start a "New Chat" and clickable "Example Prompts" to guide new users.
- Core Language: Python 3
- Web Framework / UI: Streamlit
- Generative AI: Google Gemini-1.5-Flash API
- Image Processing: Pillow
- Version Control: Git & GitHub
- Deployment: Streamlit Community Cloud & GitHub Codespaces
The project follows a professional, modular structure to ensure maintainability and separation of concerns. scolarbot_streamlit/ ├── src/ │ ├── app.py # Main Streamlit application logic │ ├── config.py # Stores system persona and static data │ └── ui.py # Functions for rendering the UI │ ├── .gitignore # Specifies files for Git to ignore ├── README.md # You are here! └── requirements.txt # Project dependencies