I'm an AI Research Scientist at AIG Hospitals. I lead the AI and biomedical informatics research in the Department of Cardiology and Electrophysiology at the Cardiac Sciences Center for Excellence, working with clinician-researchers and data scientists with an aim to optimize the practice of clinical medicine, care delivery and health system operations.
Previously, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research with Mohit Jain. I explored the use of multimodal LLMs and retrieval augmentation for "expert-in-the-loop" healthcare chatbots. I also developed algorithms for automated cataract surgery video analysis in collaboration with Sankara Eye Foundation for surgical training.
I'm pursuing both my Bachelor of Technology and MS by Research in Computer Science (currently, on-leave) from IIIT Hyderabad. I was exceedingly fortunate to have worked with and mentored by Jayanthi Sivaswamy at the Medical Image Analysis Lab in Center for Visual Information Technology since 2020. I had spent wonderful years taking the baby steps of research wandering through the diverse areas of medical information processing in an inter-disciplinary team: from developing AI-driven imaging-based diagnostic tools to creating visualization software for medical education.
Driven by the promise of clinical machine intelligence, I'm fascinated by the potential of approaching medical challenges through a computational lens. I work at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and medical imaging. My interest extends to the latest advancements in deep learning and its diverse applications that can create a tangible, positive impact on society.
Beyond research, I actively participate in the broader medical imaging community. For over four years, I've been involved with the MICCAI Student Board, currently serving as its President. Previously, I interned at INAI - Intel Labs, working on developing deep learning-assisted early oral cancer detection algorithms from smartphone camera images. Earlier, I was an early team member at Matchday.AI, building automated football field top-view registration and analytics tools for sports broadcast videos.
Recent Updates
Oct 2024 |
Excited to join AIG Hospitals as AI Research Scientist and a founding member of its Center for AI and Innovation! I lead the AI research in the Departments of Cardiology, Electrophysiology, Cardio-thoracic Surgery and Interventional Radiology. I also work with the Centre of Excellence for Gastroentology, building real-world intelligent solutions to transform surgical procedure suites. AIG is among the largest hospitals in the country today, with a strong focus on scientific research and evidence-based practice. |
Oct 2024 |
Attending MICCAI at Marrakesh, Morocco! Excited to present our paper CheXtriev on October 09th! As the President of MSB, I'm glad to be leading our new initiatives: MSB EMERGE workshop and PhD Thesis Madness. |
Jul 2024 |
Invited as a guest on the 11th season of the AI-ready Healthcare podcast! In a conversation with Anirban, I shared insights into the MICCAI Student Board's journey, new initiatives, future vision, and plans for MICCAI 2024. Now available on: Apple Podcast, Podchaser, Spotify, Pocket Casts |
Jun 2024 |
Happy to receive the MICCAI Society Travel and Registration Award for USD 2,500! I'll be presenting my paper at Marrakesh in October. |
May 2024 |
CheXtriev accepted to MICCAI 2024! We introduce a graph transformer based, anatomy-aware framework for chest radiograph retrieval. |
Apr 2024 |
Excited to join Microsoft Research as a research intern in the Technology and Empowerment group! |
Mar 2024 |
MSB EMERGE, a unique fully student-organized workshop, accepted as a MICCAI satellite event! Honored to serve as the Program Chair. Accepted papers will be published in Springer proceedings with invitations to a special issue of MELBA journal. |
Jan 2024 |
Selected as a fully-funded student delegate for Google Research Week 2024! I'll be visiting Google Bengaluru for a three-day program. |
Jan 2024 |
Locate-then-Delineate accepted to ISBI 2024! We propose a novel, two-stage, multimodal localization-guided pneumothorax segmentation framework using chest radiographs and their associated free-text radiology reports. |
Nov 2023 |
Elected as the President of the MICCAI Student Board! Excited to take on this new role and contribute to the MICCAI community. |
Oct 2023 |
Attending MICCAI at Vancouver, Canada! Thrilled to present MelDD as an oral talk at the ISIC workshop. As Vice-President of MSB, I will be participating in the MICCAI Board annual meeting and co-organizing PhD thesis madness, A&I panel and networking event and socials! |
Jul 2023 |
MelDD accepted to MICCAI ISIC skin image analysis 2023 as an oral presentation! We designed a multi-level clinical-workflow inspired model that first performs lesion focused analysis, then integrates patient information and population level prevalence for the final diagnosis. |
Jan 2023 |
Invited to join the MICCAI Society Board's Career Advancement Working Group, led by Marius George Linguraru. Excited to contribute to the mentorship program with Anees Kazi and Antonio Porras. I'm particularly honored to be the only student member of the group. |
Dec 2022 |
Selected as an invited student delegate for the two-day MSR India - Wadhwani AI - UPenn Trustworthy AI Conference at Microsoft Research. |
Nov 2022 |
Elected Vice President of the MICCAI Student Board. Looking forward to serving the community. |
Oct 2022 |
Awarded the IIIT Hyderabad Dean's List Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence! |
Sep 2022 |
Attending MICCAI 2022 in Singapore with support from a MICCAI Society grant! As Professional Events Officer at the MICCAI Student Board, co-organizing the A&I panel discussion and networking event. |
Jul 2022 |
Selected with full-waiver for the UCL Medical Image Computing Summer School (MedICSS) 2022, organized by the Center for Medical Image Computing, University College London, UK! |
Apr 2022 |
Honoured with Gold Medal for Outstanding Volunteer, a prestigious honor bestowed on fewer than ten students in the institute's history! |
Jan 2022 |
Our paper on mitigating size bias is subcortical structures segmentation is accepted to ISBI 2022! |
Aug 2021 |
Selected for the two-week virtual edition of the Medical Augmented Reality Summer School co-organized by Balgrist University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland and TU Munich, Germany. Excited to participate in orthopedic surgery shadowing. |
May 2021 |
Very excited to be selected as a paid research intern at the Center for Intelligent Imaging, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)! Unfortunately, the offer was rescinded due to COVID-19 pandemic visa and travel restrictions. |
Jan 2021 |
Selected to join the MICCAI Student Board as Executive Officer. As one of the youngest members and the first-ever student representing an Indian institution to hold this position, I am incredibly honoured and grateful. |