Debesh Jha
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) at University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota, United States
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Top SchoolDebesh Jha is an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota who builds lightweight, energy-efficient deep learning models for real-time medical imaging applications, particularly in gastrointestinal, abdominal, and neuroimaging domains. With eight years of experience spanning PhD research in Norway to leadership roles at Northwestern Medicine, he has produced widely adopted open datasets and benchmarks (Kvasir-SEG, HyperKvasir, CirrMRI600+, KvasirCapsule) that helped standardize medical AI research and informed industry integrations like NVIDIA Clara. His work emphasizes trustworthy, open science and clinical translation, earning recognition including IEEE Chicago Junior R&D awards and Meta’s Paper with Code contributor award. Less obvious: he blends hands-on model engineering with practical deployment constraints—optimizing for energy and latency to enable real-time diagnostics rather than only pursuing state-of-the-art accuracy.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science, Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science at UiT- The Arctic University of NorwayMaster’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at Chosun UniversityNorthwestern UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Khwopa Engineering College (Purbanchal University)+2, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, +2, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Birat Science Campus
English, Nepali, Hindi, maithali, Korean, Urdu, Norwegian
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Github Skills (19)
residual-networks10
ieee10
segmentation10
ism9
image-segmentation9
medical-image-segmentation9
medical9
open-access8
jekyll7
semantic-segmentation7
tensorflow7
jekyll-theme7
deep-learning7
classification7
github-pages6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DebeshJha/Kvasir-Instrument
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
DebeshJha/2020-MediaEval-Medico-polyp-segmentation
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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