Feb 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates · On-site

Aug 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Product, Business and Strategy:
• Set up a 3 year road map for the Data Science division
• Scaled the Data Science team from 2 members to 15 members.
• Product Manager for the development of Data Collection, Annotation and Visualisation tools as a part of MLOps initiative in the Data Science team. The tool enabled the development of the vitals monitoring product (BP and Glucose) in a record time of 3 months from conception to production.
• Product Manager for the vitals monitoring product. The product resulted in a 3K DAU on the MFine platform.
• Technical - Computer Vision and Signal Processing:
• Few shot learning for PPG signal extraction from Facial and Finger tip videos.
• Other engagements:
• Set up data collection drives
• Involved in setting up the processes for ISO13485, CDSCO and FDA certifications of the vitals monitoring tools (work in progress)
• Involved in setting up clinical collaboration with leading hospitals in India
• Leading efforts to open source select technologies built at MFine

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Leading the Data Science team in the following areas: NLP, Computer Vision and Audio Signal Processing
• Leading efforts to develop Continuous Learning Platform for ML algorithms
• Leading efforts on academic collaboration
• Developed proof of concept for cough classification
• Leading efforts to develop India’s first smart clinic
• Led a team to develop a bespoke ML platform analogous to AWS Sagemaker
• Domains: NLP, Computer Vision, Audio Signal Processing, Big Data and Machine Learning (Theoretical)

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos

• Developed OCR and NLP based inference engine for laboratory reports
• Domains: Computer Vision and NLP

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Strategic:
• Setting up Sony’s first healthcare unit in India. Reporting to Sony India Project Office inTokyo.
• Preparing a 10 year roadmap for healthcare in India through thorough Market and Technical analysis of Indian and Global healthcare markets.
• Involved in technology evaluation of startups for investment by the Sony Innovation Fund.
• Technical - Multi-modal specialist:
• Developing a bespoke multi-modal emotion recognition algorithm for Sony Pictures Network/Sony Entertainment
• Leading efforts on training SRI employees on cloud architectures by organising training sessions with AWS.
• Evaluating new sensor technologies for use in Healthcare problems.
• Mentoring interns
• Other engagements:
• Involved in University collaborations in India. Currently engaged with IIT-Bombay for healthcare projects
• Leading efforts in improving the brand value of Sony Research India on social platforms such as LinkedIn by preparing content to actively engage users. This lead to a 6x increase in the number of followers of SRI page on LinkedIn

Feb 2018 – Jul 2018 · 5 mos

• Module lead for project on real-time object detection and object tracking in ultrasound longitudinal 3D US scans
• Module lead for enhancing computer vision algorithms for ultrasound image analysis
• Domains: Computer Vision

Feb 2016 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs

• Module lead for commercialization projects in medical image analysis for ultrasound machines targeted for obstetrics and gynecology field of medicine
• Responsible for end-to-end development of computer vision algorithms for ultrasound images (2D and 3D)
• Incharge of collaboration with multiple stakeholders globally to ensure successful completion of projects
• Successfully executed all projects in a lean startup mode
• Scrum master for projects
• Incharge of increasing R&D portfolio of the division
• Key Achievements: 1st patent filing for the division; 1st commercialization of algorithm in the division developed
• entirely by the two member team under my leadership; 4 awards for contributions towards projects; Total Patents/
• Papers filed/presented: 3 patents and 3 papers
• Domains: Computer Vision

Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 · 3 mos · Bangalore

• Visiting researcher at Spectrum Labs, Dept. of EE, Indian Institute of Science.

Jun 2014 – Oct 2014 · 4 mos · Bangalore

• Intern with the Imaging and Computer Vision Group at Siemens Research and Technology Center. Instrumental in developing a tool to segment images/volumes using Random Walker algorithm. The algorithms were implemented in Python.

Apr 2011 – Dec 2011 · 8 mos

• C++ Developer involved in developing new modules for efficient memory usage for the CAD Algorithms in the CAD ALPHA team.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos

• Intern at CAD Research Group. Was involved in developing algorithms for Lung Disease Characterization in CT Images.