RESEARCH SCIENTIST / MEDICAL AI / MULTIMODAL AI / AI SYSTEMS
Adarsh Bhandary Panambur
Research Scientist · Medical AI · Multimodal AI · AI Systems
Profile
Research Scientist working across representation learning, multimodal and vision-language models, applied generative AI, and GPU/HPC inference. Six years of medical imaging research at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Siemens Healthineers, with peer-reviewed work in IJCARS, Scientific Reports, MICCAI, SPIE Medical Imaging, IEEE NSS/MIC and BVM, and retrospective clinical evaluations on cohorts in Vietnam, China and Germany.
Applied AI system chain
Experience
Research Scientist
NHR@FAU · Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center
Turns research models into things people can use — and keeps them running at cluster scale.
- Develop AI solutions built on locally deployed LLMs and VLMs, foundation-model APIs, embeddings and retrieval.
- Build tool-using agent workflows and research software on open-source AI frameworks.
- Engineer training, serving and inference workflows for GPU clusters and supercomputing infrastructure.
- Take AI prototypes from idea to working system quickly, then harden the ones that prove useful.
- Work with academic and industrial partners to translate AI research into practical solutions.
PhD Researcher
Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Self-supervised and multimodal learning for mammography and breast MRI, from method design through to publication.
- Developed self-supervised and transfer-learning methods for mammography classification, detection and localization.
- Designed vision-language models for mammography report generation over a curated 81,076-image multi-institutional public dataset.
- Built weakly supervised breast MRI models that localize lesion evidence from a single annotated slice per examination.
- Studied explainability — attention maps, Grad-CAM, token-level grounding — as evidence for clinical review rather than as proof of correctness.
- Published across IJCARS, Scientific Reports, MICCAI, SPIE Medical Imaging, IEEE NSS/MIC and BVM.
- Ran reproducible large-scale experiments with Docker and SLURM on GPU clusters.
Guest Researcher
West China Hospital, Sichuan University
Retrospective evaluation of a breast MRI AI research prototype on an external clinical cohort, with radiologists.
- Evaluated a Siemens Healthineers breast MRI AI research prototype on a retrospective external cohort.
- Worked with radiologists on lesion annotation quality and reading-workflow questions.
- Reported the study as an ECR 2025 scientific exhibit (DOI 10.26044/ecr2025/C-21110).
Doctoral Researcher
Siemens Healthineers
Mammography AI development and retrospective clinical evaluation in international collaborations.
- Contributed to retrospective evaluation of AI-assisted mammography reading in a Vietnamese screening cohort (ECR 2024, ECR 2025).
- Developed deep-learning methods for categorizing mammography positioning artifacts.
- Worked on imaging AI within regulatory and clinical-workflow constraints.
Working Student and Master's Thesis
Siemens Healthineers
Clinical-workflow prototyping, patent and prior-art analysis, and blockchain-in-healthcare specifications.
- Built MATLAB prototypes for compliance-based task prioritization in clinical workflows.
- Prepared software specifications and use-case survey reports for blockchain applications in healthcare.
- Evaluated IoT technologies for healthcare workflow optimization.
- Identified potential patent infringements, prepared claim charts and conducted prior-art searches.
- Co-inventor on a European patent application for unlocking a medical device (EP 3644550 A1).
Senior Engineer (Medical Devices)
Transcaal Engineers India Pvt. Ltd.
Led biomedical engineering delivery and quality assurance services across five Indian states.
- Delivered medical-device QA services across five Indian states.
- Led and mentored a biomedical engineering team.
Calibration Engineer
Transcaal Engineers India Pvt. Ltd.
Hospital equipment testing, preventive maintenance and standards-based compliance work.
- Performed preventive maintenance and compliance testing of medical devices using Fluke biomedical equipment.
Education
PhD Research Student - AI / Medical Imaging
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
M.Sc. Medical Data Engineering
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
B.E. Medical Electronics
Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Skills
REPRESENTATION & VISION
Self-Supervised Learning · DINO / Vision Transformers · Transfer Learning · Detection · Localization · Explainability
MULTIMODAL & FOUNDATION MODELS
Vision-Language Models · CLIP / SigLIP · Image-Text Learning · Medical VLMs · Report Generation · Foundation Models
GENERATIVE AI
LLMs · RAG · Embeddings · Agents · Foundation-Model APIs · Local LLM Deployment
AI SYSTEMS
PyTorch · Hugging Face · GPU Inference · SLURM · HPC · Distributed Training · Model Serving · Containers
MEDICAL AI
Mammography · Breast MRI · Clinical Validation · Medical Image Analysis · Multimodal Clinical Data
ENGINEERING & DATA
Python · C++ · NumPy / pandas · scikit-learn · SimpleITK · MONAI · Docker · Git
Selected publications
- BE-WISE: Breast MRI Evaluation with Weakly-Informed Slice-Level ExplanationBildverarbeitung für die Medizin (BVM) 2026, 10–17, 2026
- Explainable Vision-Language Models for Mammography Report GenerationManuscript in preparation — no venue yet, 2026
- Re-thinking Mammography Transfer Learning: The Dataset-Informed Transfer Learning (DITL) Framework for Breast Cancer Screening and Lesion DiagnosisarXiv preprint (accepted at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing, CVIP 2025 — in print), 2026
- Attention-guided erasing for enhanced transfer learning in breast abnormality classificationInternational Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 20(3), 433–440, 2025
- MammoBLIP: End-to-End Mammography Report Generation with Vision-Language Models and Public Multi-Institutional Datasets2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (NSS/MIC/RTSD), Yokohama, 2025