Machine learning · computer vision · health

Saumya Roy.

Researcher turning signals and images into structured understanding — medical imaging, clinical NLP, and deployed AI systems. MSc Data-Driven Health @ KTH, Stockholm.

// research interests: AI for real-world impact — LLMs, medical imaging, retrieval systems, signal processing. Open to PhD & thesis positions.

Portrait of Saumya Roy
Currently

Where I am now

2026 — Stockholm

Research & Teaching Assistant — KTH

Future Well Ageing · Forte programme

Building a bilingual agentic LLM assistant that helps pre-frail older adults find local activities — Swedish-first speech (KB-Whisper + Piper), semantic retrieval, live on KTH's GPU cloud. Advisors: S. Meijer, A. Darwich.

Data Annotator — Neko Health

Preventive-health technology

Annotation, quality assurance, and edge-case discovery on RGB medical imaging to support machine-learning model development; built internal tooling to streamline the annotation workflow.

The path

Roles, research & education

Stockholm · India · France · Iceland
Education & training Experience & research
Jun 2026 — PresentRole
Research & Teaching Assistant
KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm
Future Well Ageing (Forte programme) · Advisors: S. Meijer, A. Darwich
Jun 2026Training
Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback
Reykjavík University / NeurotechEU — Iceland
HRV science & hands-on lab work · EU co-funded · 4 ECTS
May 2026 — PresentRole
Data Annotator
Neko Health — Stockholm
Annotation, QA & edge-case discovery on RGB medical imaging; annotation tooling
Nov 2025Training
Unite! Research School
Grenoble INP · Université Grenoble Alpes — France
One-week research boot-camp, AI focus · EU co-funded · 3 ECTS
Aug 2025 — Jul 2027Degree
M.Sc., Data-Driven Health
KTH Royal Institute of Technology — Stockholm
GPA 4.80 / 5.0
Jun 2024 — Jan 2025Research
Research Intern
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Wheat-damage CNN (99.82%) · ESP32 construction-safety device · Advisors: A. Miglani, H. Kanchwala
May 2023 — Aug 2023Research
Summer Intern
National Remote Sensing Center, ISRO — Hyderabad
Complex-valued U-Net for raw PolSAR segmentation · Host: Haripriya S.
Nov 2020 — May 2024Degree
B.Tech., Electronics & Communication Engineering
Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology — Kerala
CGPA 7.28 / 10 · Undergraduate research w/ Prof. Deepak Mishra
Selected work

Research & systems

every piece carries its number
Deployed · v6.16KTH · Forte

Aktivitetshjälpen — activity assistant for the pre-frail

Qwen3-8B agent · KB-Whisper · Piper · hybrid semantic search · FastAPI

A bilingual agentic LLM assistant helping pre-frail older adults find local activities. Tool-calling agent over Qwen3-8B with hybrid keyword-boosted semantic search (nomic-embed-text), honesty guards for weak matches, 11-table data model scraping 26 municipalities + SPF Seniorerna daily, CPU-only speech pipeline (KB-Whisper int8, 4–7s latency), WCAG AA accessible UI, consent-gated family sharing, and admin analytics dashboard.

Status● LIVE · 26 sources · sv/en
Challenge · 3rd of 5Team Hedgehog

VisGrid drone classification

Drone Defense Hackathon · KTH Center for Total Defence

Classify tracked objects as BIRD / DRONE / IRRELEVANT from multi-camera image sequences. Lightweight motion & appearance features feeding a tuned tabular ensemble (ExtraTrees, XGBoost, LightGBM) — optimised for macro-F1 on a small dataset, no GPU.

Macro-F10.9458
Project · clinical NLPKTH · w/ Yuxin Du

Fine-tuning NanoChat on MIMIC-IV discharge notes

transformer LM · domain adaptation · honest eval

Domain-adapted a transformer language model to clinical discharge summaries, then built a QA + hallucination evaluation that quantifies the gap between better language modelling and reliable clinical question answering.

Perplexity34.4 → 9.0
Paper + codeNCVPRIPG 2025

HybridMorph — MR image registration

semi-supervised · spatial transformers · TensorFlow

Aligns medical MR images from hybrid real + synthetic data sources, using spatial transformers to cut the amount of real training data needed for accurate registration.

Accuracy+9.2% limited data
Paper + thesisIIST · in prep

Temperature fields from laser absorption + Gaussian processes

LAS · multi-output GPR · Boltzmann parameterisation

Reconstructs non-uniform temperature profiles inside a combustor from a single molecular absorption transition, using multi-output Gaussian-process regression and testing robustness to spectral noise against experimental data.

RMSE (sim)19.9 · ±20 K exp
Project · meta-learningFS-DSC 2024

MAML vs. FOMAML on few-shot classification

Omniglot · learn2learn · PyTorch

Compared Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning against its first-order approximation on few-shot character recognition, testing when dropping the second-order (Hessian) term is safe — and quantifying the accuracy/speed trade-off.

FOMAML acc0.970 · 5% faster
Research · remote sensingNRSC · ISRO

Complex-valued U-Net for PolSAR segmentation

Pauli decomposition · complex CNN · raw data

Segments raw Polarimetric SAR imagery directly in the complex domain via the Pauli representation, avoiding the domain shift introduced by converting radar data to real-valued inputs.

InputRAW POLSAR · CV-CNN
Study · psychophysiologyReykjavík · NeurotechEU

HRV under cognitive vs. social-evaluative stress

Polar H10 · time + frequency domain · effect sizes

A within-subject HRV experiment testing whether social observation deepens stress. Found parasympathetic engagement, not suppression — a clean case study in reading physiological signals honestly against a directional hypothesis.

Signal1,230 IBIs · |d|>0.8

Earlier research also includes a CNN for wheat-grain damage detection at IIT Delhi (99.82% accuracy), an ESP32 construction-safety edge device (98.3%), FFT + wavelet analysis of combustion instability, and a complex-network study of the OPEC crude-oil trade — see publications below.

Peer-reviewed & preprints

Publications

first author on all
01
HybridMorph: Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Real Data for Accurate MR Image Registration
S. V. Roy, D. Mishra, M. M. Raimundo
National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Graphics (NCVPRIPG), 2025doi ↗
02
Estimating Non-Uniform Temperature Profiles in Combustion Systems using Laser Absorption Spectroscopy and Multi-Output Gaussian Process Regression
S. V. Roy, D. Mishra, Satheesh K., R. Sadananan
Manuscript in preparationthesis ↗slides ↗doi ↗
03
Combined FFT and Wavelet Analysis of Schlieren and Flame Luminosity Time-Series to Visualize Regions of Combustion Instability
S. V. Roy, D. Mishra, R. Sadananan
National Aerospace Propulsion Conference (NAPC), 2025PDF ↗doi ↗
04
A Complex Network Analysis of the OPEC Crude Oil Trade Network
S. V. Roy, Manoj B.S.
Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), 2024PDF ↗doi ↗dataset ↗
Open resources

The interview kit

two free sites · code it, then say it
01 · Vibe Coder Bootcamp

Write the code yourself. No autocomplete.

A browser-based Python course that climbs from basics to NumPy, pandas, PyTorch and attention — every exercise runs real tests, with pseudocode and hints held back until you've tried, a 20-minute interview timer, and a plan for when you freeze.

0AI assistance
20′interview timer
✓runnable tests
Start coding ↗
02 · ML Interview Playbook

Answers you can say, not topics you recognise.

A recall-first study site: every card is the sentence you'd speak in the room, collapsed so you test yourself. Transformers, LLMs & agents, RAG, NLP, classical ML, MLOps, system design — and the registration and medical-imaging traps from my own research.

194question cards
27sections
66trick questions
Open the playbook ↗
Health systems, ethics & policy

Writing & analysis

the other half of data-driven health
Technical notes & journal club

Notes & talks

reading the field, explaining it
Background

Toolkit & recognition

Professional service
  • 2026Reviewer — International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Maastricht
Awards
  • 3rdStudent Flash Talks — Frontiers Symposium in Data Science, IISER Trivandrum, 2024
  • Top 2%JEE Main & Advanced — India, 2020
  • ★Department of Space scholarship — Govt. of India, for undergraduate studies
Education & training
  • MScData-Driven Health — KTH · GPA 4.80/5.0 · 2025–27
  • BTechElectronics & Comm. Eng. — IIST · 2020–24
  • ECTSUnite! Research School (Grenoble) · Biofeedback & HRV (Reykjavík)
Languages
PythonC++MATLABRSQLJavaScript
ML / DL
PyTorchTensorFlowKerasOpenCVLLM fine-tuningsemantic searchmedical imagingsignal processing
Tools & infrastructure
GitDockerAWSKTH GPU cloudLaTeXKB-WhisperPiper
Domains
medical imagingclinical NLPremote sensingcomputer visionhealth systems