Associate Director,
Cropin
Dr. Kumar Rajamani is currently working as Associate Director at Cropin Technologies Private Limited. Prior to this, he was Senior Manager Algorithm at KLA Tencor, Senior Scientist at Philips Research.
He completed his Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Luebeck, Germany. His research during the Postdoctoral stint was on Medical Deep learning, specifically advanced architectures for medical image segmentation (COVID-19 lesion segmentation) using attention mechanisms.
Kumar has worked earlier with several Multi-National companies – Robert Bosch, GE Global Research (GRC), Philips Research He also was full time into Academic research and Teaching for two years with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetam. His research focus includes Deep Learning, AgriTech, Remote Sensing, Medical Imaging, Semi- conductor Wafer Inspection, Machine Learning, Image Analysis.
He has nine patents to his credit. Kumar completed his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Bern, Switzerland.
“A Framework for Novel Research Idea Generation in AI“
In this talk, I would like to share a Framework that could be utilised to generate novel ideas especially in the field of AI and Deep Learning. I will share some strategies that have worked for me in coming with publishable ideas and share real case-studies where these strategies have resulted in good publications. I would also like to briefly cover about my thoughts and impressions about differences between Industry Research and Academic research – as I have experienced both these research contexts. Finally I would cover some of the current trending research areas – like Hyper-Localised AI Models – which are yielding superior outcomes and results in Deep Learning – especially in Agri-Tech context – with case studies from current research work that I am involved. Another topic that I would briefly cover is about – Personalised Agent Frameworks – which is an area I feel that is scope for future research.