I'm an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, building foundation models in federated settings for medicine and healthcare.
- π§ Program Manager, IndiNeuroFM: a sovereign Indian foundation model for the human brain (TANUH AI-CoE, with 12 medical partners)
- π Ph.D., CSE, IIT Patna (Efficient Techniques for Knowledge Distillation) Β· PMRF fellow, 2021β2024
- π¬ Working on knowledge distillation, federated & privacy-aware learning, medical image analysis, deepfake detection in medical imaging and uncertainty estimation
- π₯ Earlier: TANUH Breast Cancer vertical and the Medical Imaging Group (MIG) at IISc Β· Assistant Professor at KIET Β· DevOps intern at Myntra
- π€ Open to collaborations in medical AI, efficient/distributed learning and trustworthy AI
- β‘ Fun fact: I love classical music πΆ
πΊοΈ My research map (click to expand)
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Efficient AI
Knowledge Distillation
Self-Distillation
Model Compression
Trustworthy AI
Uncertainty Estimation
Noise-Resilient Learning
Deepfake Detection in Medical Images
Federated & Distributed Learning
Non-IID Federated KD
Multi-institution Foundation Models
Healthcare AI
Brain MRI Foundation Models
Breast Cancer Imaging
Medical Image Classification
Graph Learning
GNN Self-Distillation
Hierarchical Attention GNNs
| When | Update |
|---|---|
| ποΈ 2026 | π Joined IISc Bengaluru as an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (CDS) |
| ποΈ 2026 | π Memory Augmented Self Distillation for GNNs published in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery |
| ποΈ 2026 | π Physics-Inspired Fuzzy Self Ensembling published in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control |
| ποΈ 2026 | π‘ Patent application filed (IISc Γ Accenture): determining authenticity of a medical image |
| ποΈ 2025 | π Defended my Ph.D. at IIT Patna |
| ποΈ 2024 | π MICCAI 2024 paper + MICCAI RISE grant |
Journals and conferences
- Taking lessons from history: Memory Augmented Self Distillation for Graph Neural Networks
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2026 Β· - Walking the Energy Lines: Physics-Inspired Fuzzy Self Ensembling for Medical Image Classification
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2026 Β· - Confidence Matters: Uncertainty-Driven Contrastive Self-Distillation for Medical Image Classification
MICCAI, 2024 Β· - StAlK: Structural Alignment based Self Knowledge Distillation for Medical Image Classification
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2024 Β· - NoRD: Noise-Resilient Self-Distillation through Relative Supervision
Applied Intelligence, 2025 Β· - SCL-IKD: Intermediate Knowledge Distillation via Supervised Contrastive Representation Learning
Applied Intelligence, 2023 Β·
β‘οΈ Full list on my website and ORCID.
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