Harsha Pokkalla
VP Of ML R&D at PathAI
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHarsha Pokkalla is a machine learning leader with a decade of experience building clinically validated AI for histopathology and oncology, currently serving as VP of Machine Learning R&D at PathAI in Boston. He founded and scaled PathAI’s PLUTO foundation model program, leading four generations of multimodal vision and vision-language models trained on a 1PB+ pathology dataset and H100/B200 clusters. Across roles from employee #4 to VP he launched FDA/EMA-cleared products and established rigorous validation, safety, and cross-lab generalization frameworks that enabled deployments with top pharma and diagnostic partners. He blends deep research roots—from Carnegie Mellon and ETH Zurich projects to early mobile and biomedical signal work—with product-focused ML engineering and regulatory navigation. Notably, he led the technical foundations that let clinical AI move from prototype to regulated use, a rare combination of hands-on modeling, large-scale data engineering, and compliance expertise.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMaster's in Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Telugu, Hindi
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Github Skills (19)
pytorch10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
jax8
neural-network7
datasets7
computer-vision7
cudnn6
keras6
tensor6
gpu6
torchvision5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HarshaVardhanP/UnsupervisedLearning
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
HarshaVardhanP/KinShip-Verification-using-CNNs
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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