Kumar Abhishek
Graduate Research Assistant
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKumar Abhishek is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at Simon Fraser University specializing in machine and deep learning for medical image analysis, with a strong focus on skin lesion segmentation and diagnosis. He combines a solid academic foundation (MS and ongoing PhD in Computing Science) with a decade of practical experience building ML-driven solutions in industry, including document image enhancement, OCR, and cloud-based monitoring tools. His work bridges research and production: developing algorithms in academic settings while previously delivering ML systems for companies like Wipro and Altisource. Based in Vancouver, he maintains an active project and publication portfolio accessible on his personal webpage, reflecting both theoretical rigor and applied impact. Notably, his background spans end-to-end imaging problems from pregnancy-test and seizure-detection research to automated property image tagging, demonstrating a consistent focus on robust, computationally efficient image processing.
10 years of coding experience
3 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, GuwahatiClass XII AISSCE, Class XII AISSCE at Delhi Public School, Bokaro Steel City.Class X AISSE, Class X AISSE at D A V Public School, Koyla Nagar DhanbadDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (60)
data-science9
pandas9
manipulation9
python9
dataframes9
data-analysis9
frame9
data-structures9
medicine8
generative-adversarial-network8
segmentation8
workspace8
data-manipulation8
super-resolution8
confusion-matrix8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kakumarabhishek/kakumarabhishek.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
abhishekreactpersonal-webpagecssjavascript
kakumarabhishek/Illumination-based-Transformations-Skin-Lesion-Segmentation
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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