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Basics
| Name | Amar Kumar |
| amar.kumar@mail.mcgill.ca | |
| Summary | PhD researcher at McGill and MILA |
Education
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2020.01 - 2025.09 Montreal, Canada
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2017.01 - 2019.12 Montreal, Canada
M.Eng. (Thesis)
McGill University
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Supervisor: Prof. David V. Plant
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2012.07 - 2016.05 Delhi, India
Bachelor of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)
Engineering Physics
- Supervisor: Prof. K. Thyagarajan
Awards
- 2023.03.01
- 2023.03.01
Work
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2016.06 - 2017.01 Senior Research Analyst
QuantOne Technologies - Hedge Fund
Designing optimization algorithms and trading strategies for stock market analysis.
- Machine Learning, Statistics, Python, R
Publications
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2025.07.31 AURA: A Multi-Modal Medical Agent for Understanding, Reasoning & Annotation
MICCAI2025-Agentic AI for Medicine
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2025.07.09 PRISM: High-Resolution & Precise Counterfactual Medical Image Generation
MIDL2025
Runner-up for the best Oral Paper
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2025.06.24 -
2024.07.03 DeCoDEx: Confounder detector guidance for improved diffusion-based counterfactual explanations
MIDL2024
Shortlist for the Best Oral Paper [Top3.6%]
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2023.06.30 Debiasing counterfactuals in the presence of spurious correlations
MICCAI2023-FAIMI
Best Oral Presentation Award
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2022.07.15
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| Java | |
| R | |
| MATLAB |
Languages
| Hindi | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Foundation Models | |
| Finetuning | |
| Scaling | |
| Synthetic Data Generation |