Writing & press
Words, mine and other people’s
A few things I’ve written up, and the coverage that followed the COVID-19 X-ray tool we built at IIT Gandhinagar in 2020.
Publications & articles
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A Novel Approach Towards Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Deep Learning on Magnetic Resonance Images
- My M.Tech thesis work, presented as two lightning talks — a 2D CNN for classifying Alzheimer’s disease from ADNI MR images.
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Seating arrangement optimisation using PSO
- How particle swarm optimisation can lay out an exam hall so that nobody sitting the same paper ends up within copying distance.
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Abduction and kidnapping in India, 2001–2010
- An exploratory analysis of a decade of state-by-state crime data, with the notebooks and the write-up together.
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Notes on new Django functionality
- Running notes on how to deal with newer Django features as they land — kept for my own reference, public in case it helps.
Press coverage
In June 2020, IIT Gandhinagar released a deep learning tool that estimates the probability of COVID-19 infection from a chest X-ray. I was the principal investigator, working under Prof. Krishna Prasad Miyapuram. It was picked up widely.
Also covered by The Times of India, India Today, Business Insider, Aaj Tak and News18.