Nilesh Kumar
AI Research Scientist at Synaptrix Labs
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNilesh Kumar is an AI research scientist with eight years of hands-on experience building deep learning and computer vision solutions, currently driving research at Synaptrix Labs after a long research stint at RIT. He combines strong algorithmic foundations and Python expertise with applied experience in computational pathology and biotech from internships at Mayo Clinic, Ordaos Bio, and Kensho Technologies. His work bridges academic rigor—pursuing a PhD in Computer and Information Sciences—and industry impact, delivering models for real-world imaging and analytics problems. Notably, he has moved between research and product-focused roles, showing an ability to translate prototypical models into applied systems in healthcare and finance domains. Based in Rochester, NY, he brings a pragmatic research mindset and cross-domain curiosity to challenging AI problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer and Information Sciences General at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
Github Skills (14)
segmentation8
semantic-segmentation4
quantitative4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
semantic3
architectures2
infer1
variational-autoencoder1
representation-learning1
object-detection1
unsupervised-learning1
variational-inference1
caffe1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nileshkumar0726/CISC-820-Quantitative-Foundations-RIT-Assignments
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
This repository contains solutions of assignments for the course CISC-830 Quantitative-Foundations (Offered in Fall 2019)
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 months
2019-fallfallfoundationsquantitative
nileshkumar0726/Sentiment-Analysis-Using-Pig-Latin
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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