CV

Pranav Kulkarni

Email Address pranavk@umd.edu
Current Position Bioinformatics Software Engineer I
University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing
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Education

  • Aug 2018 - May 2022
    BS in Computer Science
    University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    • Machine Learning Track.
    • Completed Capstone Research in Machine Learning with Dr. Tom Goldstein on adversarial attacks with semantic perturbations and fast gradient sign method on a LLM for detecting AI-generated fake news articles.
    • Complete the First-Year Innovation and Research Experience with Dr. Müge Karagöz.
  • Aug 2018 - May 2022
    BS in Mathematics
    University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    • Completed dual-degree in Mathematics.

Experience

  • Apr 2024 - Present
    Bioinformatics Software Engineer I
    University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing, North Bethesda, MD
    • Developing web-based informatics tools for clinical data engineering, analysis, and visualization across the entire software stack using VueJS, Flask, and MySQL.
  • Aug 2022 - Apr 2024
    Bioinformatics Software Engineer I
    University of Maryland Medical Intelligent Imaging (UM2ii) Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Research focused on collaborative cross-domain intelligence systems, resource-efficient AI, adversarial bias attacks, and other translational research projects.
    • Developed tools for processing and analyzing medical images from radiology PACS/VNA systems.
  • Jan 2021 - May 2022
    Head Teaching Assistant
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    • Held weekly recitations for over 200 students, facilitated review sessions for over 2000 students, planned and restructured course material, managed over 50 teaching assistants, and held office hours.
  • Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
    MATLAB Tutor
    Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    • Provided one-on-one tutoring to undergraduate students in MATLAB programming for linear algebra, differential equations, and multivariate calculus, tailored to their course and proficiency.
  • May 2019 - Aug 2019
    Summer Research Fellow
    The First-Year Innovation and Research Experience, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    • Applied ML to reconstruct tree-like structure of particles splitting for the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment in CERN's Large Hadron Collider using unsupervised RNN.

Coursework and Skills

  • Computational Coursework
    • Geometric Computer Vision, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, Data Structures, Data Science, Functional Programming, Object-Oriented Programming
  • Mathematics Coursework
    • Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus, Advanced Calculus, Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Fourier Transforms, Statistical Analysis
  • Technical Skills
    • Python. TensorFlow, PyTorch, Git, Linux, C/C++, C#, Java, VueJS, MATLAB, SQL
  • Other Skills
    • Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Scientific Writing, Public Speaking

Inventions, Patents, and Copyrights

  • Systems and Methods for High-Throughput Analysis for Graphical Data
    • Inventors: Vishwa S. Parekh, Pranav Kulkarni, Adway Kanhere, Paul H. Yi, and Eliot L. Siegel
    • US Patent Application No. 63/501,552. Filed May 11, 2023.
    • PCT International Patent Application No. PCT/US2024/028956. Filed May 10, 2024.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    Best Poster Award (Co-Author)
    Data Curation and Augmentation in Medical Imaging Workshop, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • 2019
    Summer Fellowship Award
    First-Year Innovation and Research Experience (FIRE) program, University of Maryland.
  • 2019
    125 Mile E-Bike Challenge Preliminary Design Competition Award
    A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland.
  • 2018 - 2022
    Semester Academic Honors (Dean's List)
    College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, University of Maryland.