Lalith Sharan
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Image-Guided Surgery (IHU Strasbourg)
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolLalith Sharan is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in safe and trustworthy surgical AI, combining computer vision, deep learning, and healthcare informatics to improve patient outcomes across large-scale, multi-institutional surgical datasets. Building on a summa cum laude PhD from Heidelberg where he developed deep learning tools for precision mitral valve repair, he now focuses on surgical vision-language models, medical foundation models, rare event detection, and interpretable AI. With 8 years of experience, 15+ high-impact publications, multiple awards and invited talks, he brings both strong research rigor and practical impact in real-world operating-room data. He has mentored numerous students and actively contributes to science communication, reaching thousands through public presentations and science slams. Unusually for an academic, he blends systems-level thinking about foundation models with hands-on engineering for registration, segmentation, and depth reconstruction used in surgical workflows. Based in Strasbourg, he is open to collaborations that translate trustworthy AI research into safer surgical practice.
8 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at Otto-von-Guericke University MagdeburgBachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Manipal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Heidelberg University
Github Skills (40)
depth-estimation10
optical-flow10
statistics9
probabilistic9
image-registration9
unsupervised-learning9
depth9
python8
adaptor8
machine-learning8
data-science7
data-analysis7
computer-vision6
deep-learning6
scikit-learn6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Cardio-AI/detcyclegan_pytorch
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
adaptor2022/adaptor2022.github.io
Jan 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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