Amruta Parulekar

Amruta Parulekar

Undergraduate student at IIT Bombay

Amruta Parulekar

Hi! I am Amruta Parulekar, a fifth year undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. I am pursuing an integrated B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, along with a Minor in Computer Science. I love travelling, hiking, and everything to do with nature. Cats, dogs and coffee happen to be great weaknesses :)

I have worked under the guidance of Prof. Amit Sethi for using multimodal (primarily image) data for medical diagnostics. I have also been guided by Prof. Lueder Kahrs on using computer vision techniques for laryngeal surgery assistance. I am currently working under Prof. Preethi Jyothi on multilingual speech recognition and generation for low resource languages. I have been awarded two Undergraduate Research awards by IIT Bombay for these research contributions.

Research Interests

I love working on real-world applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I also enjoy mixing modalities and have experimented with speech, text, image as well as numerical data. Be it computer vision, natural language processing, or reinforcement learning, I like learning and exploring the concepts and then using them to try and make a difference where I can! Some examples include:

  • Working in collaboration with doctors to use artificial intelligence techniques for more efficient diagnosis and treatment of different health conditions.
  • Building and deploying tools for automatic speech recognition, speech generation and machine translation to aid education in low resource languages.
  • Developing tools for industrial safety such as accident predictors in power plants and personal protective equipment detectors for factory workers.

I also enjoy teaching and mentoring, having been a teaching assistant for the Automatic Speech Recognition (CS 753) , Engineering Graphics and Drawing (ME 119) and Biology (BB 101) courses at IIT Bombay. I have also been a department academic mentor for over a year and received the best mentor award. I have served as a mentor for several AI/ML programs in IIT Bombay clubs.

In my free time, I enjoy art, photography and music. I play the keyboard and have tried my hand at every medium, from pencil sketching, water colors, to acryllics on canvas and even roads.

News!

Apr 2025My work at IIT Bombay titled Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Towards Real- Time Ultrasound to Mammogram Conversion for Cost-Effective Diagnosis was accepted to the Ultrasonics Journal!
Jan 2025My work at IIT Bombay as first author, AMPS: ASR with Multimodal Paraphrase Supervision was accepted to NAACL 2025 (Main conference)!
Jan 2025My work at IIT Bombay titled PathoGen-X: A Cross-Modal Genomic Feature Trans-Align Network for Enhanced Survival Prediction from Histopathology Images was accepted as a full paper to IEEE ISBI 2025!
Aug 2024My work at IIT Bombay as first author, Parameter-efficient Adaptation of Multilingual Multimodal Models for Low-resource ASR was accepted to the Multilingual Representation Learning workshop of EMNLP 2024!
Jul 2024Scored 332/340 in the Graduate Records Exam (GRE) and 115/120 in the TOEFL!
May 2024At the 145th American Laryngological Association meet (COSM), Chicago, to present our poster on a computer vision pipeline for laryngoscopic image standardization!
Apr 2024Awarded the Best Mentor Award under the department academic mentorship program at IIT Bombay!
Feb 2024At the Bioimaging conference (BIOSTEC), Rome, to present our paper on a novel loss function to combine datasets with different label sets for improved nucleus segmentation and classification - Best Student Paper Award nomination!
Jan 2024My work at the University of Toronto as first author, A Computer Vision Pipeline for Laryngoscopic Image Standardization through Histogram Matching was accepted to the 145th ALA meet as a poster presentation!
Dec 2023My work at IIT Bombay as first author, Combining Datasets with Different Label Sets for Improved Nucleus Segmentation and Classification was accepted to the BIOIMAGING 2024 (BIOSTEC) conference!
Nov 2023Received an AP grade (given to less than 2% students) in the Public Health Informatics (DH302) course at IIT Bombay!
Oct 2023Awarded a second Undergraduate Research Award by IIT Bombay for exceptional contributions to scientific research!
Jul 2023Selected for IDDDP from Electrical Engineering to C-MInDS (AI/ML) at IIT Bombay!
Jun 2023At the University of Toronto for a 3-month summer internship at the Medical Computer Vision and Robotics Lab!
May 2023Awarded an Undergraduate Research Award by IIT Bombay for exceptional contributions to scientific research!
Apr 2023Received the best project award in the Electronic Design Lab (EE344) course at IIT Bombay!
Mar 2023Received the best presentation award in the Automatic speech recognition (CS753) course at IIT Bombay!
Jan 2023Awarded the prestigious MITACS scholarship for a research internship at the University of Toronto through the Globalink Research Internships program, Canada!
Dec 2022Our work at IIT Bombay, Artificial Intelligence-based Eosinophil Count in Gastrointestinal Tract Biopsy was accepted to the American Gastroenterology Association meet (Gastroenterology Journal) as a poster presentation!
Nov 2022Received an AP grade (given to less than 2% students) in the Image Processing (EE610) course at IIT Bombay!
May 2021Received my first AP grade (given to less than 2% students) in the Biology (BB610) course at IIT Bombay!
Oct 2020Admitted to IIT Bombay as an Electrical Engineering Dual Degree student!
May 2019Secured the National Talent Scholarship (NTSE), exclusively granted to the top 0.2% students of the nation!
May 2018Felicitated with the Times of India - NIE Student of the Year award for excellence in academics!

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