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.
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
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)
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
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- 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