Aparna Balagopalan
AI Research Scientist at WRITER
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAparna Balagopalan is an AI research scientist and PhD-trained machine learning specialist focused on fairness and safety in healthcare and other safety-critical domains. With a decade of experience spanning industry research roles and academic appointments at MIT, University of Toronto, and visiting positions in Europe, she blends rigorous empirical work with production-minded engineering. She currently builds efficient, reliable LLM-based agents at Writer while holding a research affiliation with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. Her background combines deep theoretical training with hands-on contributions as a research software engineer at WinterLight Labs and internships at Philips and IISc, giving her practical expertise in deploying ML for real-world signals. Notably, she has investigated interpretability of CNNs and entropy-based analyses early in her career, a thread that continues into her work on interrogating model behavior in high-stakes settings. Based in Boston, she brings an unusual mix of cross-institutional research collaboration and product-focused ML delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Majoring in Electronics and Communications Engineering with Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Majoring in Electronics and Communications Engineering with Minor in Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiHigh School, High School at DAV Public School,Kukatpally,HyderabadDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Vidyadham Junior College,Hyderabad
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
sequence8
generative-adversarial-network6
machine-learning4
deep-learning3
nlp3
pytorch3
natural-language-processing3
tensorflow3
neural-network2
named-entity-recognition2
huggingface2
error-detection1
multimodal1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Aparna-B/researcher
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
A jekyll based resume template
Contributions:52 pushes in 4 years 11 months
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MLforHealth/ExplanationsSubpopulations
Jun 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 11 months
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