CV

General Information

Full Name Yash Mehta
Interests AI, Healthcare, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science
Languages English, Hindi

Experience

  • Oct 2023 - Present
    Visiting PhD Student
    Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
    • with, Pranav Rajpurkar
  • Jan 2022 - Sept 2023
    Research Engineer 2
    HHMI Janelia Research Campus
    • with, James Fitzgerald & Jan Funke
  • Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
    Research Engineer
    Machine Learning Lab, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
    • with, Frank Hutter
  • Jan 2019 - June 2020
    Research Technician
    Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL
    • with, Peter Latham & Tim Lillicrap (DeepMind)
  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
    Software Development Engineer
    Amazon

Education

  • 2023 - 2027
    PhD student, Cognitive Science
    Johns Hopkins University
  • 2018
    BSc. Research Thesis
    Erik Cambria, NTU Singapore
  • 2014 - 2018
    Btech, Computer Science
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani)

Open Source Projects

  • 2021-2022
    NASLib & NASBench-Suite
    • NASLib is a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) library for facilitating NAS research for the community by providing interfaces to several state-of-the-art NAS search spaces and optimizers.
  • 2021-now
    Awesome Transformer Search
    • A curated list of awesome resources combining Transformers with Neural Architecture Search

Research Experience Areas

  • Healthcare
    • Knowledge graphs for automated radiology report generation
  • Deep Learning
    • Transformers and large language models
    • Neural architecture search
  • Computational Neuroscience
    • Biologically plausible credit assignment
    • Local plasticity rules

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Hiking, Videography, Running, Cooking