I am Ekansh Chauhan, currently pursuing a Master's by Research at the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, affiliated with the Cancer Diagnostics (DIAG), Centre for Visual Information Technology (CVIT) lab. Under the guidance of professors Vinod P.K. and C.V. Jawahar, my research focuses on the automated classification of tumors using histopathology images. In this project, my work involves collecting data from affiliated institutions and employ deep learning methods to detect cancer tumors.

Before I joined IIIT Hyderabad, I was a Research Fellow at iHub Data, where I worked with Prof. Bapi Raju S on developing a low-parameter model, LRH-Net, designed to detect multiple fatal cardiovascular diseases at once in resource-constrained environments. Also, through proposed multi-level knowledge distillation, I was able to reduce the required input leads to two or three (generally twelve), enhancing its user-friendliness and suitability for edge devices.

I completed my Bachelors from GGSIPU University Delhi in Information Technology. I worked in the areas of evolutionary algorithms, detection and prediction of COVID-19 using deep learning, and interned at The IIT-BHU - Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi with Prof. Hari Prabhat Gupta on quality assessment of River Ganga using machine learning.
Research

Multiple Instance Learning for Glioma Subtype, Grading and IHC biomarkers using H&E Stained WSIs: An Indian Cohort Study
Ekansh Chauhan, Amit Sharma, Megha S Uppin, C.V. Jawahar & P.K. Vinod
Nature Scientific Data'24
Paper / Code

Lupus Nephritis Subtype Classification with only Slide Level Labels
Amit Sharma, Ekansh Chauhan, Megha S Uppin, Liza Rajasekhar, C.V. Jawahar & P.K. Vinod
MIDL'24
Paper / Code

LRH-Net: A Multi-level Knowledge Distillation Approach for Low-Resource Heart Network
Ekansh Chauhan, Swathi Guptha, Likith Reddy & Bapi Raju
MICCAI Workshop: FAIR'22
Paper / Code


Experience

International Institute of Information Technology
Research Fellow, Healthcare & Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Jan 2020 - May 2021

International Institute of Information Technology Jan 2020 - May 2021

Research Fellow, Healthcare & Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

International Institute of Information Technology Jan 2020 - May 2021

Research Fellow, Healthcare & Artificial Intelligence (HAI)

Education

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Master of Science by Research in CSE  | CGPA: 9.2 |  July'22 – Present

Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
Bachelor of Technology in CSE  | July'17 – July'21


Projects

AutoSub

  • Developed a CLI application to generate subtitles for video files on-device automatically
  • Implemented MFCC features to segment audio on non-speech segments and perform speech recognition
  • Improved performance using an external scorer (language model) and added support for GPU-based inference

from scratch
minimal implementations from scratch of the following:

  • baby86: a minimal x86 "bootloader" to print stuff on screen
  • nn: dense neural network with multiple layers and activation functions
  • cnn: NumPy-only CNN with Conv and MaxPool layers
  • torch: not-so-minimal implementation of the torch API

Bioactivity Prediction

  • Used regression models to predict biological activity (pIC50 values) of protein targets from ChEMBL database
  • Calculated Lipinski and PaDEL descriptors using Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as the target protein
  • The best Decision Tree Regressor model achieved an R-squared value of 0.86

Augmented Random Search for Data Augmentation

  • Improved AutoAugment by replacing the discrete search space with continuous space for augmentation policies
  • Used Augmented Random Search method to improve performance and maintain diversities between sub-policies

Antenatal Care (iOS App)

  • Created an iOS application using Swift and XCode to provide antenatal care for rural populations
  • Implemented NFC to store electronic health records like test results, scans, prescription details on an NFC-enabled card
  • Used Firebase as a back-end database for storage and retrieval of patient details


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