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Srijay Deshpande

Postgraduate Researcher, The University of Warwick
Room: CS302
Tel: +44 7747247409
E-mail: srijay.deshpande@warwick.ac.uk

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I am a Ph.D. Candidate, working with Prof. Nasir Rajpoot in the Tissue Image Analytics Centre, University of Warwick, with the dream to automate cancer diagnostics and treatment using AI. My expertise is in the domain of modern machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, and AI-driven medical multi-gigapixel image analysis. I work with the vision to use advanced computer vision techniques to develop and nurture innovative solutions that could transform the lives of people deprived of healthy lives. Prior to my Ph.D., I worked as a Data Scientist at Microsoft, where I worked with the Bing Ads team on improving the information retrieval performance of sponsored search using novel NLP techniques. For me, understanding machine learning algorithms and programming is intrinsic and gives me immense confidence and pleasure to work and lead successfully for the design, implementation, and delivery of state-of-the-art applications. I firmly believe that AI has the potential to create an impact on the health of people and I am determined to drive the change that is needed.

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Research Interests

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Pathology, Generative Adversarial Networks, Diffusion Models, Natural Language Processing

Education

1. Ph.D. The University of Warwick

Supervisor: Prof. Nasir Rajpoot
Co-supervisor: Dr. Fayyaz Minhas

2. MTech Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Supervisor: Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti

3. BTech Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur

Supervisor: Prof P S Deshpande

Experience

Microsoft India Role: Data and Applied Scientist

  • Implemented neural models like CLSM and fastText to improve the performance of sponsored search on the Bing platform and deployed the models in UK, IN and AU markets
  • Innovated novel NLP-based information retrieval model for ad hoc Ads Retrieval which improved the quality of the retrieved ads and also played a vital role in upgrading the infrastructure of the Bing Ads retrieval system
  • Developed back end APIs using .NET framework for the Small and medium businesses team under Office 36
Amazon India Role: Software Developer Intern
  • Developed a web tool titled "Bulk Download Tool for CreditNotes" using Ruby on Rails to collect large number of documents (credit notes) from storage

    About the tool: It takes a list of document Ids as input and fetches the corresponding documents, compresses them, and returns the compressed document for downloading, in real time

Major Publications

SAFRON: Stitching Across the Frontier Network for Generating Colorectal Cancer Histology Images Medical Image Analysis Journal ยท Dec 29, 2021

TIAToolbox as an end-to-end library for advanced tissue image analytics , Nature Communications Medicine

Thakare, Atul & Deshpande, Srijay & Kshirsagar, Amit & Deshpande, Parag. (2019). Mining Query Plans for Finding Candidate Queries and Sub-Queries for Materialized Views in BI Systems Without Cube Generation. Computing and Informatics. 38. 473-496. 10.31577/cai_2019_2_473