Neeraj Kumar
Machine Learning Scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNeeraj Kumar is an applied machine learning scientist with a Ph.D. and nearly a decade of experience building deep learning and computer vision solutions for digital healthcare, currently driving ML research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He blends academic rigor—15+ peer-reviewed papers, a US patent, and extensive peer review—with industry impact, having co-founded Pathomica to translate gigapixel pathology images into mutation and survival predictions. Neeraj has led international competitions and symposiums that united multidisciplinary teams across 11+ countries, and he routinely communicates complex model findings to clinicians and non-technical stakeholders. His background spans developing novel architectures for image super-resolution and nucleus segmentation to creating large annotated datasets and MLOps curricula, reflecting both hands-on modeling and systems thinking. Colleagues know him for bridging research and product, mentoring students, and packaging sophisticated ML into usable clinical insights.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine learning and Image processing, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Machine learning and Image processing at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiBachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Electronics and Communications Engineering at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
Hindi, Punjabi, English
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Github Skills (8)
segmentation10
testing9
algorithm9
algorithms7
reinforcement-learning6
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
ipython5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
neerajkumarvaid/Nuclei_Segmentation
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
This is the source code for training and testing our three class CNN algorithm for generalized nuclei segmentation (IEEE TMI paper) using Torch.
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
segmentationtesting
neerajkumarvaid/ML_DL_RL_Codes
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:131 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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