Anil Saini
Data Scientist
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnil Saini is a Research Data Scientist at Cedars-Sinai with nine years of experience applying AI to healthcare, specializing in fair machine learning and AutoML for medical data. He holds a PhD and MS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and a B.Tech from IIT Roorkee, and transitioned from a postdoc into a research scientist role at Cedars-Sinai in 2024. His PhD work on genetic programming earned a Best Paper Award at EuroGP 2020, reflecting deep expertise in evolutionary methods and automated model discovery. Anil blends academic rigor with industry experience from Adobe Research, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to translate novel methods into clinically relevant tools. He is based in Los Angeles and notably focuses on fairness-aware AutoML—an often underappreciated but crucial bridge between research advances and equitable healthcare impact.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeDoctor of Philosophy Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy Computational Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstIntermediate, Intermediate at D. A. V. Public School, Naraingarh
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (19)
stack-based10
interpreter10
clojure10
genetic-programming10
programming-language9
random-forest6
aiml6
feature-engineering6
ai-ml6
automated-machine-learning5
parameter-tuning5
python5
data-science4
automl4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
theaksaini/Clojush
Jan 2018 - Jun 2023
The Push programming language and the PushGP genetic programming system implemented in Clojure.
Contributions:2 PRs, 67 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 5 months
pushmodularitygeneticsystem-programminggenetic-programming
theaksaini/tpot2
Apr 2023 - Feb 2024
A Python Automated Machine Learning tool that optimizes machine learning pipelines using genetic programming.
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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