ARGAJA SHENDE
Hi there!
I’m a Biomedical Engineering graduate from Carnegie Mellon University.
My interests lie in the application of image processing and deep learning in pathology and clinical settings. Additionally, I have about 2 years of experience working in the biotech/healthcare industry.
I am passionate about contributing to the biotech/healthcare industry and making a meaningful impact on human health.
Feel free to reach out to collaborate, discuss ideas or just to chat!
EDUCATION
MS Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Teaching Assistant
2021-2022
MTech Biomedical Design
BTech Engineering Design
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Research Assistant
2015-2020
EXPERIENCE
Customer Success Engineer - Software Solutions
Analyzed microscopy datasets using image processing and deep learning
Built and tested deep learning models to analyze medical imaging data
Built end-to-end ultrasound image analysis pipeline to improve image quality
Software Engineer
Image Analysis Intern
Engineering Intern
Developed image-based models to perform urine analysis
PROJECTS
Deep Learning
Breast IDC classification
CNN-based deep learning models with multiple pooling layer variations to classfiy whole-slide-image patches as IDC positive/negative.
Detected infected class of malarial images using AutoEncoders. The project sorts entire images as either normal or infected.
Implemented a modified version of the Unet model to accurately predict the nuclei segmentation mask
Image Processing
Implemented three different methods to register the H&E and IHC stains and evaluated their performance using ground truth landmarks.
Develop image analysis and ML pipeline for automated detection of sweat rate and chloride concentration from sweat patch images.
Implemented various image processing techniques to segment tumor from liver CT images using ITK toolkit.
PUBLICATIONS
Shende, A.D., Patra, B., Prasad, P.K., Bandyopadhyay, S. (2021). Analytical Determination of the Longest Cylinder Free of Gain-type Singularities Inside the Workspace of a 3-RPS Spatial Manipulator. In: Lenarčič, J., Siciliano, B. (eds) Advances in Robot Kinematics 2020. ARK 2020. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham.