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PhD (Pursuing)

Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

• Thesis title - Contactless Extraction of Physiological Signals using RGB and Thermal Infrared Imaging.
• Key Research Areas
  • Semantic segmentation, contrastive learning, generative adversarial networks, domain specific image augmentation for thermal images, remote plotoplethysmography (rPPG), signal quality analysis of physiological signals, face and landmarks detection in RGB-Thermal images.
• Other Collaborative Projects
  • Interactive Repair - This project is with the Consumer Experience team of Textile Circularity Centre (TCC) for building a cutting-edge and an interactive repair technology using RGB-Thermal imaging.
  • Thermal Primate - This is an inter-disciplinary project with a research group at Roehampton University aimed at thermography based assessment of physiological changes in free-ranging Barbary macaques (primates).

Masters - Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

• Research Methodologies in Humanities and Science.
• Systems Design, Integration and Control.
• Machine Learning

B.Tech. - Electronics and Communication

Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India

• Electronic Devices and Circuits.
• Embedded Systems.
• Microprocessors and Microcontrollers.

Post Graduate Teaching Assistant

University College London, London, United Kingdom

• Supporting academics and professors with teaching activities for following course modules
  • Research Methods and Making Skills (COMP0145)
  • Affective Computing and Human-Robot Interaction (COMP0053)
  • Affective Interaction (PSYC0021)
  • Systems Engineering (COMP0016)

Solution Architect (Consultant)

Tata Elxsi Ltd, London, United Kingdom

• Health and Life-Sciences Business Unit.
• Role Description
  • Review of academic literature and patents.
  • Ideation, feasibility analysis and proof-of-concept design for algorithmic solutions.
  • Review of technical proposals, design documents and customer deliverables.
  • Mentoring of AI engineers
• Key Projects
  • Growth curve analysis for molecular detection system
  • RGB-thermal imaging solutions for patient-bed automation in ICU.
  • Eye-gaze tracking for autism diagnosis
• Domains of Contributions
  • Medical device development
  • Deep-learning, computer-vision
  • System engineering

Specialist (AI)

Tata Elxsi Ltd, Pune, India

• Health and Life-Sciences Business Unit.
• Role Description
  • Ideation, feasibility analysis and development of MVP for algorithmic as well as engineering solutions.
  • Project management with OEM customer facing responsibilities.
  • Preparing as well as reviewing design documents, validation plan.
  • Conducting risk analysis and FMEA.
  • Mentoring and appraisal review of engineers and senior engineers.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams including hardware, electrical, firmware, software and systems engineering.
  • Contributing to strategic planning as well as proposals for new customer engagements.
• Key Projects
  • Edge computing based dense object detection for enumerating bacterial colonies.
  • Point-of-care diagnostics device development for sickle-cell disease and malaria.
  • Design of innovative automated peritoneal dialysis system.
• Domains of Contributions
  • Medical device development
  • Deep-learning, computer-vision
  • Opto-electro-mechanical systems
  • System engineering

Lead R&D Engineer

Azoi Inc, Ahmedabad India

• Role Description
  • Algorithm development for hand-held vital signs monitoring device.
  • Leading a research and clinical validation team.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams including electrical, firmware, software (Android and IOS) and clinical validation.
  • Drafting of technical file for regulatory approval.
• Domains of Contributions
  • Medical device development
  • Real-time signal processing and anomaly detection (ECG, PPG, Resp, Cuff-less blood pressure)
  • Machine learning

Senior R&D Engineer

National Brain Research Centre, Gurgaon, India

• Key Projects
  • Functional MRI (fMRI) based investigation of visuospatial perception as diagnostic biomarker in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
  • BOLDSync - a MATLAB based toolbox to facilitate the presentation of audiovisual stimulus in synchronisation with fMRI scanner.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions

• Development of software solution for the maintenance of wireless intelligent network, operated by Huawei

iBVP Dataset - RGB-Thermal rPPG Dataset with High Resolution Signal Quality Labels

• Work published in Electronics, MDPI journal, 2024
• Project Pages
  • GitHub page for the dataset.
  • Training and validation source code.

PhysioKit - An Open Source, Low Cost Physiological Computing Toolkit for Single and Multi User Studies

• Work published in Sensors, MDPI journal, 2023
• Project Pages
  • Source code for the toolkit.
  • PyPI project for easy installation of the toolkit.

Self adversarial Multiscale Contrastive Learning for Semantic Segmentation of Thermal Facial Images

• Work presented at British Machine Vision Conference, 2022
• Project Pages
  • Training and validation source code.
  • Inference code.
  • Real-time inference code for TOPDON TC001 thermal camera.

• Project Excellence Award, Tata Elxsi; Project-Automated peritoneal dialysis technology & PoC development; Role-Lead R&D

• Project Excellence Award, Tata Elxsi; Project-Deep-learning based enumeration of bacterial colonies; Role-Technical Architect and Project Manager

• Customer Appreciation Award, Tata Elxsi

• Tata Innovista Award

• Customer Appreciation Award, Tata Elxsi