About

Developer | Researcher

Currently in the final year of engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology . I am working as Product Lead at the HlthDev Venture. Also , working on the AI for Bone Age Diagnostics, with Dr.Pranay Goel ,IISER Pune.

Research Interests :
For my final year project , I am studying Data-Centric NLP for Pre-training and finetuning of Bert Based models , mentored by Mr. Raviraj Joshi ( L3cube ) .
I am also studying ways to use AI for Artitficial Label generation and Interpretable ML for complex medical and life sciences problems, in which the ground truth of the data is often disputed or otherwise imperfect .

Research

AI for Bone Age Diagnostics

Octover 2020 - Present : FastAI , OpenCV , Pytorch , Image Segmentation

The Project is trilaterally being worked on by the IISER Pune , Jehangir Hospital and Karolinska Institutet institutions as a join venture between the Swedish and the Indian Government.
One of the main challenges of this project is that the Data used in medical imaging , often has disputed ground truth and its objectiveness lies on the consensus of Senior medical experts on the research team. Solving for such a dispute in data using AI , becomes even more challenging.
My Role and contributions inculde development of Image Segmentation and Image Classification models using neural networks for the development of Bone age assessing software. Developing Supplementary software for completion of the project. Training a Multi Class classifier for classifying the bone segment to its age class using PyTorch.

I Will be working on the initial deployment of project set for summer 2022. Initial Results of the works have been documented in Poster presented at the ISPAE conference 2021 , Pune.

Ladkat Arnav, Goel Pranay, Lars Sävendahl, Tim Aeppli, Oza Chirantap and Khadilkar Anuradha . Assessment of bone age using artificial intelligence in children and adolescents across different ethnicities. Presented at 7th Biennial meeting of the Indian Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, ISPAE 2021 (Nov 12-13) Pune, MH

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Projects

Writer4Hire

December 2020 : Android,Java,Firebase

Worked in a team of 4 students to develop an android app to bridge the gap between handicapped people who are in need of a writer for exams and volunteers for the same.
The app enables a user to login as a writer(volunteer) or as a client. Client can fill a request and a notification corresponding to that request will be sent to all the writers signed up on the app.

Once the request is accepted by any writer then the the client and writer get each others contact details and can communicate with each other.
My role was to Design the App Architecture, Database schema and internal flow of the app, I also implemented Firebase cloud Messaging service for sending notifications.

Hospitality Manager

May 2021 : WixCode,JavaScript,Firebase , Affinidi SDK

Developed a solution in a team of 2 for using verifiable credentials while traveling to check into Hotels or other accommodations, instead of presenting your ID’s as proof to enforce privacy and security.
Worked with Affinidi’s SDK to use verifiable credentials and developed a web portal for implementing the solution.

Developed a issuer’s side and a verifier’s side web based application around the Verifiable credential API , to take in user identification details and issue a VC to them that can be verified at the hotels.
Made use of WixCode to develop the web portal using Javascript as the primary Language with firebase as the database and used Sendgrid(email delivery service) for sending emails.
We won the 2nd Place in the Open Category in the Affinidi's POCathon 2021.

PICT Robotics

The ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) is an Asian-Oceanian college robot competition, founded in 2002 by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. The theme of the event for 2020 was ”Robo Rugby” and the Theme for 2019 was ”Sharing the Knowledge” . We successfully ranked in the top 15 all over India , in both the competitions.

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Smaart Mart

Jan 2020 : Python,Flutter, NLP

Using Python and NLP to create a hashmap of all items available across multiple online retail stores.
Cleaning and Labelling the data automatically for scalability .
Using Flutter to pull and display same items across different stores clubbed together, and show the comparative pricing of the same [locally] on Android/IOs devices .
Showing Location based results from more than 5 online retail stores.