About Me

My name is Lafith. Currently I am working as a R&D Engineer for the Image-Guided Robotics Group at HTIC-IIT Madras, focused on Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning.

Prior to this position at HTIC, I was a Visiting Research Scholar under Dr. Ritu Aneja, University of Alabama at Birmingham & Dr. Jun Kong, Georgia State University. In this role I was responsible for conducting deep learning based analysis on Whole slide images obtained from breast cancer patients.

I received a BTech in Biomedical Engineering at the National Institute of Rourkela in 2021. Following this I worked as Project Engineer for the Endoscopy Development group at HTIC-IITM. Here I made a VR application capable of visualizing video stream from a stereo-endoscope. I developed and deployed deep learning models for lesion detection in edge devices.

During my Undergrad I lead the simulator development team for our Autonomous Underwater Vehicle development group-Tiburon. Here I built a AUV-Simulator usable for testing algorithms in a 3D underwater environment.

I have also worked on couple of projects, related to industrial CT scans, at Centre for Computational Imaging-IIT Palakkad under the supervision of Dr. Mahesh R Panicker.