School of Computing and Electrical Engineering (SCEE)
Room no. 30, 3rd Floor, Building A17
IIT Mandi, North Campus
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India - 175075
Bio
I did my undergraduate work at the University of Arizona and obtained my Master's degree from Stanford University, both in Electrical Engineering. I then worked at Mosys Inc., Santa Clara, California where I designed analog circuits for SERDES. Upon my return
to India I worked as a Research Associate at IIT Delhi and went on to obtain my doctorate degree from there. My work at IIT Delhi was on engineering novel computational biomarkers from neural signals using signal processing and statistical learning. After completing my PhD I cofounded a company,
Intellihealth, with the aim of providing the technologies I work on in the hands of patients and clinicians as quickly as possible.
Research Interests
I work at the intersection of signal processing, machine learning and diagnostic medicine. My approach can be termed as "data-centric machine learning" where the attempt is to trade-off model and algorithmic complexity and data size with data engineering through signal processing. In medical applications, obtaining large amounts of high quality data
is often not feasible. Yet the predictive models that are built on that data have to be more reliable than those in most other applications. By understanding the clinical context and smartly engineering the data to extract the information where the biomarkers of the disease are residing one can solve many challenging diagnostic problems. To state simply, algorithm is king but data is the throne.
I work mostly on, but not restricted to, neurological disorders.
Prospective Students
I am looking for PhD and M.Tech (by research) students who would be building predictive models for neurological and ophthalmological disorders. The students will be working with some of the highest quality datasets that can obtained for the respective applications, which are being curated over years for these specific projects. The expectation from students is to be creative, rigorous and thorough (CRT),
and this requires sincerity and some passion. Non IIT Mandi students can drop me an email if they are interested but I would request them to first go through the formal selection process. IIT Mandi students interested in data science where the focus is on data engineering can take my courses. I am offering Estimation and Detection theory in Spring 2023 semester.