Hi, I’m Ketan. I recently earned my Master’s in Artificial Intelligence from Boston University, where I was advised by Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama. Before that, I completed my Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee.

I’m currently a Staff Scientist at the Kolachalama Lab at Boston University and an AI Engineer at Clairyon, a healthcare startup focused on building agentic AI systems for hospitals.

Research:

• Active Feature Acquisition, which combines reinforcement learning, information theory, and explainable AI.
• Improving long-prompt alignment in text-to-image diffusion models.
• Enhancing transformer robustness to missing features.
• Exploring humanlike cognition in large language models (LLMs).
• Vision-language models for Neuropathology
• Multimodal foundation model for Neurology

Industry:

• Building and scaling agentic AI systems at scale (for clinical care)
• Deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms.
• Automating internal workflows using AI agents.

Outside of work, I enjoy playing the piano, painting, speed-cubing, powerlifting, tennis, sprinting, and playing Counter-Strike.

🗞️ News

June 2025

• Presented my talk and poster at CVPR 2025 (link)

May 2025

• Our PNAS article featured on multiple news sites!
• Started as AI Engineer at Clairyon and Staff Scientist at Kolachalama Lab
• Paper accepted at ICML 2025
• Selected for oral presentation at CVPR 2025

April 2025

• Article published in PNAS
• Workshop paper accepted at CVPR 2025
• Successfully defended my Master’s thesis

May 2024

• Joined the Banaji Implicit Social Cognition Lab as a researcher

September 2023

• Joined the Kolachalama Lab as a graduate researcher