I am a Machine Learning engineer with 7+ years of experience and a Masters in Computer Science. I solve real-life problems using AI-ML techniques - Computer Vision, NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and build AI-ML based applications. I have also gained knowledge of working with Big Data using Spark, Hadoop.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco, CA
• Leading NIH grant project with Oxford University and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of Pathologists, Biologists, Data scientists regarding data, annotation, validation and insights
• Distinguished disease type using pre-training with contrastive learning, graph transformers and Vision Transformer segmentation models at patch, interconnected patch and pathology level; currently preparing manuscript for publication
• Developed xAI techniques for visualizing attentions across entire whole slide image in QuPath; trained GAN models to remove marker stains and applied alignment in whole slide images
• Integrated and LoRA finetuned QwenVL, LLaVA LLM into a multi-modal pipeline for automated analysis of crop based attentions heatmaps explaining the distribution, improving inference speed and accuracy
• Designed and trained a closed loop Reinforcement learning based PPO agent for a thinking microscope robot to allow it to tune itself for optimal power and duration to maximize cell lives in wells
• Support grant efforts with preliminary analyses and proposal writing based on literature review
2022 — 2025
2022 — 2025
San Francisco, CA
• Developed scalable, automated deep learning pipeline using multi-GPU nodes for segmenting and classifying neurodegenerative pathologies in gigapixel whole slide images
• Deployed trained model for detecting plaques in AD histopathological tissue images in RunPod cloud
• Created inter-rater agreement tool within QuPath using Java Groovy to facilitate collecting annotations from various pathologists with the aim of generating consensus training dataset
• Support grant efforts with preliminary analyses and proposal writing based on literature review
• Built generalized attention-based training framework using pretrained foundation models to classify whole slide images for abnormal tissue detection and track the movement of neurons in microscopic images
• Training foundational model for classifying & segmenting neuronal vs glial cells from microscopic images
2019 — 2022
Bengaluru Area, India
Internal product:
• Created a scalable end to end resume-parser for automated resume screening and matching relevant job roles accelerating the hiring process
• Trained YOLO object detection model for detecting paragraph, heading, photograph in resume; BERT classifier for headers; extracted industry-skill years of experience, title matrix using text algorithms
and libraries like Regex, BERT, Simstring etc
• Extracted features such as section, skills from Job description and created weighted ranking for role and resume match; deployed in AWS EC2 Nginx; used Flask/Streamlit for API service
UAE based Client with Leisure & Entertainment business:
• Identified high lifetime valued customers with 45% recall improvement over baseline using LSTM based time series regression approach; experimented with Random Forest, LGBM, XGBoost models
• Improved 8% revenue gain and increased package incidence of client’s market by determining optimal pricing of packages using clustering with Entropy based Discretization technique and Simulated Annealing approach
• Evaluated performance across concepts and screens by sites and markets; built an AWS alert system to recommend relevant business action
• Performed sentiment analysis of NPS customer survey data of malls using NLTK tools
US based client with e-com retail business:
• Segmented buying behavior patterns for similar items using order transactions (used K-mean clustering)
• Identified potential bundle candidates and likelihood of buying together using Apriori Algorithm
• Generated similarity ranking of recommended bundles based on product images using ANNOY indexing and CNN - VGG network and product metadata
US based client with transportation business:
• Used LSH algorithmic approach to find the control customer highly similar to each test customer
• Performed Statistical tests and analyzed performance of pre and post enrollment
2019 — 2019
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Advanced Programming Lab, Introduction to Programming Lab
2018 — 2019
India
As a researcher, I worked on my M.Tech thesis "Performance Evaluation of SP Methods for Simulation Optimisation & Policy Learning" under the guidance of Prof. Prashanth L.A. Overview of my work:
• Evaluated and compared performances of stochastic optimisation algorithms using Simultaneous Perturbation methods on multimodal functions with increasing dimensions
• Developed policy gradient using Simultaneous Perturbation techniques to train Neural Network for optimizing parameterized policy in Reinforcement Learning problems
• Obtained best parameter settings for classic control environments with discrete and continuous action space and compared performance with REINFORCE algorithm
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Bachelor's degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras