Aditya Narendra

I am a project assistant at IIT Indore, working under the supervision of Dr. Chandresh Ku Maurya and Dr. Ayush Tripathi on building reliable and robust machine learning systems for healthcare applications. Specifically, I am interested in using uncertainty estimates to improve clinician-AI collaboration and developing multimodal models for diagnostic tasks.

Previously, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Surya Prasath at Univ. of Cincinnati, Dr. Leland K Werden at ETH Zürich, Dr. Min Xu at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Dr. J. Sivaswamy at IIIT Hyderabad. I also worked as a Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra.

Feel free to reach out to discuss research ideas or potential collaborations.

Email | CV | LinkedIn | GitHub

Updates
Our paper on UrHiOdSynth accepted to LoResLM @ EACL 2026.
Our paper on Rank based CP methods for few-shot classification accepted to AAAI 2026.
Our paper on Class-Conditional Coverage accepted to AAAI 2025.
Our paper on Feature Bias Mitgation accepted to WIML @ NeurIPS 2024.
Our paper on Uncertainty Quantification for Cervical Cytology got accepted to MIDL 2024.
Awarded 1st Prize ($2500 USD) out of 1000 teams at 2022 Smart Odisha Hackathon.
Awarded 2nd Prize ($200 USD) out of 100 teams at 2022 Hugging Face Gradio NYC Hackathon.
Got accepted to DLMI 2022 Summer School at ETS Montreal.
Experience
Project Assistant | Indian Institute Technology (IIT) Indore
Advisors: Prof. Chandresh Kumar Maurya & Prof. Ayush Tripathi
July 2025 - Present

Worked on a DST (Govt. of India)-funded project to build an end-to-end pipeline for Indic-language radiology report generation using a two-stage multimodal model framework. Also developed rank-based conformal prediction methods to improve reliability in few-shot pathological analysis pipelines.

Associate Software Engineer | Tech Mahindra
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025

Worked on a GNN-based accident detection system for a smart traffic solution for the Govt. of Odisha, cutting emergency response times by over 60%. Also designed an EHR application handling 100,000+ daily records and improved record retrieval by 42%.

Research Intern | Prasath Lab
Advisor: Dr. Surya Prasath
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025

Developed conformal prediction methods to enhance uncertainty quantification in pathological cell classification workflows, improving model interpretability and robustness. Also designed a sampling-based feature bias mitigation technique to address data-driven biases in cervical cytology classification, improving model fairness and reliability.

Research Affiliate | Assisted Forest Regeneration Lab
Advisor: Dr. Leland K Werden
Dec 2022 - Jan 2024

Finetuned a Llama2-13b model for a summarization platform with custom review tags for grey literature of regeneration practices on ASReview Lab.

Research Intern | Xu lab
Advisor: Prof. Min Xu
Aug 2022 - Sept 2023

Worked on a Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning (CSSL) approach for macromolecular structure classification from cryo-ET data with limited labels.

Research Volunteer | Summer School on Computational Neuroscience
Advisor: Dr. José Biurrun Manresa
July 2023 - Aug 2023

Participated in the 2023 Neuromatch Academy Summer School on Computational Neuroscience. Designed regression models for future motion state prediction using time series analysis on ECoG data.

Research Intern | Summer School on Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Advisors: Prof. Pierre-Marc Jodoin & Prof. Thomas Grenier
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022

Partcipated in the 3rd Edition Summer School on Deep Learning for Medical Imaging (DLMI-22). Evaluated various weakly supervised segmentation techniques for cardiac diseases diagnosis.

Research Assistant | IIIT-Hyderabad
Advisors: Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy & Prof. C.V. Jawahar
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022

Worked on building the 'Indian Brain Segmentation Dataset'- a sub-cortical structure segmentation database for young population. Also contributed to a multi-scale attention architecture for COVID-19 detection from Chest-X Rays.

Publications
Towards Reliable Few-Shot Adaptation of Pathology Foundation Models via Conformal Prediction
Aditya Narendra, Shubhankar Panda & Chandresh Kumar Maurya
40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2026)
Paper | Code
Rank Based CP methods for few-shot classification tasks.
UrHiOdSynth: A Multilingual Synthetic Corpus for Speech-to-Speech Translation in Low-Resource Indic Languages
Jamaluddin, Subhankar Panda, Aditya Narendra, Kamanksha Prasad Dubey & Mohammad Nadeem
LoResLM workshop, 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-2026)
Paper | Code
3-way multilingual synthetic corpus for speech-to-speech translation in low-resource Indic languages.
Optimizing Conformal Prediction Sets for Pathological Image Classification
Shubham Ojha*, Aditya Narendra*, Abhay Kshirsagar, Shyam Sundar Debsarkar & Surya Prasath
Pattern Recognition (Under Review), 2025
Paper | Code
CP Training method for controlling set compostionality.
Ensuring Class-Conditional Coverage for Pathological Workflows
Siddharth Narendra, Shubham Ojha, Aditya Narendra, Abhay Kshirsagar & Abhisek Mallick
39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2025)
Paper | Webpage | Code | Poster | Slides
CP method for consistent coverage guarantee across all classes.
Mitigating Feature Bias in DL Models for Cervical Cytology
Subhashree Sahu, Shubham Ojha & Aditya Narendra
WiML, 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-2024)
Paper | Webpage | Code | Poster | Slides
Sampling based technique for feature bias mitigation.
Uncertainty Quantification in DL Models for Cervical Cytology
Shubham Ojha & Aditya Narendra
7th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL-2024)
Paper | Webpage | Code | Poster | Slides
Effect of uncertainty incorporation on model's predictive capabilities.
Other Projects
Prediction of Future Continuous Motion States from ECoG Recording
Aditya Narendra, Andy Bonnetto, Chayanon Kitkana, Paola Juárez, Ruman Ahmed Shaikh & Taima Crean
2023 Neuromatch Academy Summer School on Computational Neuroscience
Slides | Code
Regression models for future motion state prediction on ECoG data.
MoSwasthya: ML Based Application for Cardiac Disease Risk Prediction
Aditya Narendra, Nishikanta Parida, S.R. Mohanty & Shaktee Biswal
2022 Smart Odisha Hackathon (1st Prize Winner-$2500)
Slides | Code | Video
Ensemble method-based estimation cardiac risk estimation.
Weakly Supervised Segmentation Techniques for Cardiac Diseases Diagnosis
Advisors: Prof. Thomas Grenier & Prof. Pierre-Marc Jodoin
2022 Summer School on Deep Learning for Medical Imaging, ETS Montreal
Code
Evaluation of SOTA weakly supervised segmentation techniques for cardiac disease diagnosis.
Miscellaneous
  • Taught (401-Deep Learning), an introductory DL course at Tech Mahindra to 50+ undergraduates from diverse academic backgrounds.
  • Received the OUTR Merit Scholarship (2020-21) for ranking 1st in my department for the last 2 UG years.
  • Beyond my work, I enjoy reading, sketching, cooking and playing team sports .
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