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Hi!, I am Pushkar Ambastha

A college student, lifelong learner, and emerging life adventurer.

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Here's My Story

I am a junior passionate about integrating different scientific disciplines to discover something extraordinary.

I am studying Bio-Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. I want to learn more about Cognitive science, Neuroscience, and its intersection with Artificial Intelligence.

I have done projects and taken rigorous courses spanning the fields of computation, medicine, biochemistry, and AI to gain a different perspective on my interests. I believe in creating impact using my work, supporting and bettering daily lives.

My Skills

Data Analytics . Computational Biology . Computer Vision . Bioinformatics

Data Analytics 90%
Computational Biology 70%
Bioinformatics 75%
Computer Vision 80%

My Experiences

Current and Previous Work experiences

MIT Media Labs June 2023 - Present

Undergraduate Researcher (Advisor: Prof. Ramesh Raskar)

- Developing methods to calibrate clinical Agent-Based Models(ABMs) directly from biopsies, therefore, minimizing the samples and also developing multi-modal calibration of ABMs.

- Working to apply gradient-based ABMs to diverse realms like morphogenesis, epidemiology, and opinion dynamics

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Hugging Face X Health May 2023 - Present

Research Intern (Advisor: Katie Link)

- Developing and experimenting with novel models derived from the Segment Anything Model (SAM), Medical SAM (MedSAM), Fast-SAM, and Faster-SAM.

- Working to apply these foundational segmentation models on a variety of Medical datasets having diverse modalities.

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University of Utah 2022 Nov - 2023 Feb

Research Intern (Advisor: Tushar Kataria)

- Fine-tuned U-Net, DeepLabV3 model on GlaS Dataset MICCAI 2015, CRAG, CPM15, and CPM17 to observe domain dependency of models on the dataset, created a pipeline to improve Image masks mIOU and Dice Score.

- Analysed Domain Shift in biomedical image segmentation models as a critical insight into Model Explainability.

- Developed pipeline for binary segmentation (UNet and DeepLabV3) for domain adaptation in diverse datasets.

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My Projects

Current and Previous Projects Descriptions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Labs (Ongoing)

- Developing methods to calibrate clinical Agent-Based Models(ABMs) directly from biopsies to have a mean accuracy of 77% under the Spatial Agreement Measure(SAM) Metric, minimizing the number of biopsy samples taken.

- Designing a novel multi-modal calibrated ABM pipeline to apply gradient-based ABMs to simulate tumour-immune cell interactions. (for Cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells in multiple carcinomas and melanoma cases)

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Hugging Face X Health (Ongoing)

- Developing novel models derived from the cumulative performance and extrapolation of Segment Anything Model (SAM), Medical SAM (Med-SAM), Fast-SAM.

- The results, when observed in Modalities such as Pathology, X-Ray, CT, and Ultrasound, gave an average improvement of 0.48 in mean Intersection of Union (mIOU) and 0.42 in Dice Score Coefficient (DSC).

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University of Utah

Biomedical Image Segmentation and Domain Adaptation

- The hypothesis revolves around the fact that the models like U-Net get biased when trained on a specific dataset like CRAG. Then it loses its accuracy when tested on a similar dataset like GLAS. Also true for other combinations of binary and multi-class segmentation datasets.

- Fine-tuned U-Net, DeepLabV3 model on Dataset like GlaS from MICCAI (2015), CRAG, CPM15 to observe domain dependency of models on the dataset, created a pipeline to improve Image masks mean Intersection of Union (mIOU) and Dice Score Coefficient (DSC).

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Domain-specific Question Answering chatbot

Project on problem statement given by DevRev.ai

We develop pipelines to retrieve a knowledge base article from the database based on the query and answer the query using the retrieved passage. We optimize the pipeline for performance, latency, and resource usage. Developed question-answering pipeline using techniques like model distillation, sparsification, pruning, and fine- tuning the DebertaV3-Base model to decrease inference time and have a minimum loss in accuracy.

Github Report

Captcha Breaker

Project by C&A Club, IITG

Deployed a Computer Vision program using Streamlit library that recognizes Text-based Captcha images and converts them into writable text.
Developed the pipeline using Pytorch involving the RCNN model, giving the CTC Loss as 0.03.

Github

Re-colorisation of monochrome images using conditional GANs

Project by Coding Club, IITG

Trained a conditional Generative Adversarial Networks model (Discriminator and Generator) based on U-Net block with Resnet18 backbone and devised Image Processing strategies for colorization of monochrome images. Deployed a web app using Streamlit library on HuggingFace for the fine-tuned model over the COCO dataset.

Github

Cover Generation using OpenAI tools

Project by IITG.ai Club, IITG

Developed a multi-modal pipeline that converts audio/text input into images using state-of-the-art OpenAI tools. Generated optimal transcripts for the podcasts and songs with OpenAI Whisper to use in creating prompts.
Designed pipeline with Latent Diffusion Models (DALL-E) to generate aesthetic cover images from created prompts using ChatGPT/GPT-2 models.

Github

Super Resolution Photographic Mosaic

Project by Coding Club, IITG

Developed a Computer Vision pipeline that enhances the images by super-resolution and image stitching.

Designed multi-model pipeline that consists of mainly Latent Diffusion Upscaler model for super-resolution and Image Stitcher for creating a panorama.

Github

My Education

University and Schools

B.Tech in Bio-Engineering 2021 Nov - 2025 May

IIT Guwahati

High School Diploma 2007 April - 2019 May

Delhi Public School Patna

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.

~ Albert Einstein

Just as mathematics turned out to be the right description language for physics, we think AI will prove to be the right method for understanding Biology.

~ Demis Hassabis

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