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

  1. A Novel Approach Towards Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Deep Learning on Magnetic Resonance Images

    Brain Informatics Conference 2021 Aug 2021

    • My M.Tech thesis work, presented as two lightning talks — a 2D CNN for classifying Alzheimer’s disease from ADNI MR images.
  2. Seating arrangement optimisation using PSO

    Medium

    • How particle swarm optimisation can lay out an exam hall so that nobody sitting the same paper ends up within copying distance.
  3. Abduction and kidnapping in India, 2001–2010

    GitHub

    • An exploratory analysis of a decade of state-by-state crime data, with the notebooks and the write-up together.
  4. Notes on new Django functionality

    GitHub

    • 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.