Nishith Khandwala
Co-Founder at Bunkerhill Health
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishith Khandwala is a Stanford-trained computer scientist and co-founder of Bunkerhill Health, where he translates cutting-edge AI research into clinically deployable algorithms backed by Sequoia and Felicis. With 11 years of experience spanning academic research at Stanford AIMI and industry internships at Apple and Symantec, he blends deep learning, computer vision, and production software engineering. He taught and assisted across core Stanford CS courses (CV, NLP, AI, generative models), signaling both strong technical depth and mentorship experience. Active in the health-AI startup ecosystem and a Forbes Technology Council member, he pairs research credibility with operator experience from Y Combinator W19. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he has hands-on systems experience from building C++ streaming frameworks and browser builds, which helps him bridge research prototypes to robust clinical products.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
W19, W19 at Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, English
Github Skills (27)
weakly-supervised-learning8
pygame7
machine-learning5
snorkel5
pytorch4
deep-learning4
agent4
metal4
natural-language-processing4
python4
deep-reinforcement-learning4
weak-supervision3
tensorflow3
q-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nishithbsk/nishithbsk.github.io
Mar 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
nishithbsk/SeamlessLoop
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes in 9 days
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