Education
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics
Stony Brook University | Aug 2021 - Ongoing
M.S. in Computer Science
New York University | May 2019
B.Eng in Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai | Jun 2015
Projects
ImageBox3: Client-side Whole Slide Image Tiling with GeoTIFF.js
Developed an in-browser tiling mechanism for Whole Slide Images using GeoTIFF.js, leveraging the similarity of WSI data formats and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs.
EpiPath: Digital Pathology in the Browser
Currently developing a zero-cost web app for Annotation, AI Modeling and Active Learning on Digital Medical Images in Box directly from the browser.
Galaxy Morphology Classification Via Transfer Learning
Trained a VGG-19 CNN using Keras to classify galaxies by morphology from raw sky survey images, demonstrating the advantages of transfer learning on astronomical datasets.
Experience
NYU Student Tech Innovation
Lead Developer | Sept 2017 - Feb 2019
Reliance Jio, India
Full Stack Developer | June 2015 - July 2017
Tech Skills
Languages & Frameworks
JavaScript, TensorFlow(+.js), Node.js, Python, PyTorch, Keras, OpenCV(+.js), Go, TypeScript, ReactJS, React Native, HTML, CSS
Databases
SQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Couchbase, Firestore, BigQuery
Other
Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, Tableau, D3.js, Plotly.js, Nginx
Publications
ImageBox3: No-Server Tile Serving to Traverse Whole Slide Images on the Web
Praphulla MS Bhawsar, Erich Bremer, Máire A Duggan, Stephen Chanock, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Joel Saltz, Jonas S Almeida, arXiv
Browser-based data annotation, active learning, and real-time distribution of artificial intelligence models: from tumor tissue microarrays to COVID-19 radiology
Bhawsar PM, Abubakar M, Schmidt MK, Camp NJ, Cessna MH, Duggan MA, Garcia.Closas M, Almeida JS, Journal of Pathology Informatics 2021
Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers
Zhang, T., Joubert, P., Ansari-Pour, N. et al., Nature Genetics 2021
Mortality Tracker: the COVID-19 case for real time web APIs as epidemiology commons
Almeida, J. S., Shiels, M., Bhawsar, P. et al., Bioinformatics 2020