timeline

A journey through affiliations, challenges, leadership, and impact.

2014 – 2018 MSc Physics BITS Pilani, India
2019 – 2021 MSc IPCV (Honors) Erasmus Mundus
2021 – Present PhD Candidate BCN-AIM · Universitat de Barcelona

Challenges

MAMA-MIA Challenge — Co-organizer
MICCAI 2025

Designed and ran an open challenge on generalizable and fair tumor segmentation and pCR prediction using breast MRI. Challenge page →

ODELIA Challenge — Top-2 Solution
MICCAI 2025

Placed Top-2 in the ODELIA multi-center breast MRI challenge, demonstrating strong cross-site generalizability of our domain-adaptive approach.

Leadership

AI Working Group Lead — RadioVal
2021 – Present

Leading the AI research workstream in RadioVal, an EU Horizon Europe project on clinical validation of AI for breast cancer treatment response.

MICCAI 2024 LMIC Initiative — Committee Member
2024

Served on the Grant Selection & Sponsorship Committee for the MICCAI 2024 LMIC Initiative, leading selection of 50+ early-career researchers from lower-income countries.

International AI Schools — AFRICAI
2021 – Present

Active member of AFRICAI. Coordinated international AI schools across Africa and South Asia, connecting researchers to global medical AI communities.

Impact

Test-Time Adaptation for Breast MRI
MICCAI 2025 — First Author

Robust tumor segmentation under domain shift without retraining — addressing a core bottleneck for real-world deployment of clinical AI across diverse acquisition conditions.

Uncertainty Estimation for Robust AI
SPIE 2024 — First Author

Investigated well-calibrated uncertainty signals for flagging unreliable predictions in breast MRI segmentation — a key ingredient for building clinician trust in AI.

3 Co-authored Journal & Book Publications
2025

JMI review on generative AI for imaging simulations, a Scientific Data paper on large-scale breast MRI datasets, and a book chapter on stakeholder perspectives in AI for healthcare.

medigan — Clinical AI Framework
JMI 2023

Co-authored medigan, an open-source framework for medical image synthesis adopted across multiple research groups for synthetic data generation and augmentation.