Summary
Harshit Kumar is a research scientist with 11 years of experience who specializes in applying AI to safety-critical domains, currently advancing early-stage breast cancer detection at Whiterabbit.ai. He holds a PhD from Georgia Tech where he studied how randomness and uncertainty affect AI models and developed mitigation strategies for long-term forecasting in complex systems like pandemics and wildfires. With a background spanning transistors to system architecture, he has blended hardware security, malware detection using SoC telemetry, and advanced spatio-temporal deep learning into practical, trustworthy pipelines. His work includes a Transformer-based 3D mammogram detector that outperformed established models and building hardware-telemetry sandboxes for large-scale ransomware analysis, highlighting a rare combination of clinical AI and low-level systems expertise. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he is driven by high-impact research that pushes models from robust theory into deployable, safety-aware solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA : 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, GPA : 4.0/4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor’s Degree & Master's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, GPA : 9.04/10.0, Bachelor’s Degree & Master's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, GPA : 9.04/10.0 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi