Experience

  1. Associate Professor

    Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
  2. Senior Medical Officer

    Armed Forces Medical Services, India
    Worked as a Physician, Public Health Specialist and Epidemiologist at Largest Air Base in Asia
  3. Commanding Officer

    Station Health Organization, Jalandhar Cantt
  4. Assistant Professor

    Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
    Worked as first Clinical Tutor in the Department of Community Medicine at AFMC, Pune
  5. Medical Officer

    Armed Forces Medical Services, India
    Worked as Medical Officer in Counterinsurgency Areas in Jammu and Kashmir, and the North Eastern states of India. Worked as Regimental Medical Officer with GUARDS and JAT regiments.

Education

  1. Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

    Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
  2. Doctorate of Medicine (MD Community Medicine)

    Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
    Thesis on Organizational Support to Spinal Cord Injury Patients. Supervised by Maj Gen (Prof). Rajat Prakash. Published a paper in Journal of Marine Medical Society, with Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) Gold Medal and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MHS) Certificate of Appreciation.
  3. Diplomat National Board (DNB Preventive and Social Medicine)

    Armed Forces Medical College, Pune
    Recieved President’s NBE Gold Medal for standing first in India.
  4. PhD Epidemiology (Data Science in Healthcare)

    Sree Chitra Tirunal Instite for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum
    Thesis on Data Science Approach for Spatiotemporal Modeling and Forecasting of Dengue in Punjab, India. Supervised by Prof. Biju Soman. Published 4 papers in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Epidemiology, Ecological Informatics, ICT4D UiO Norway, and Int J Community Med Public Health, with best PhD paper award at National Conference of the Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine at PGIMER, Chandigarh (IAPSMCON 2021)IAPSMCON 2021 (PGIMER, Chandigarh) and Gavin Mooney Prize at National Conference of the Indian Health Economics and Policy Association, Flame University, Pune (IHEPA 2024).
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Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Python & PyTorch
Machine Learning
Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP)
Hobbies
Hiking in the Rockies
Building Custom PCs
Sci-Fi Reading
Awards
Best Paper Award
NeurIPS ∙ December 2022
Awarded for groundbreaking work on efficient training of large models.
AI Innovation Grant
National Science Foundation ∙ June 2021
$500,000 grant for research in ethical AI development.
Outstanding PhD Thesis
Stanford University ∙ June 2019
Recognized for contributions to scaling laws in deep learning.
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