Kiran Bhattacharyya
About me
Currently, I work as a machine learning scientist and software engineering manager at a surgical robotics company called Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in Atlanta, GA. In the past, I lived in Chicago where I completed my PhD at Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering.
Professionally, I'm interested in machine learning (ML) and data science (DS). In my free time, I like making projects that explore the role models and representation play in our life, sometimes by creating intentionally weird interactive experiences. Many of these projects are in collaboration with my spouse, Sara Milkes. I also like playing around with developing VR technology and mobile/web apps.
Selected publications
1) Zia, Aneeq, Kiran Bhattacharyya, Xi Liu, Ziheng Wang, Max Berniker, Satoshi Kondo, Emanuele Colleoni et al. "Objective Surgical Skills Assessment and Tool Localization: Results from the MICCAI 2021 SimSurgSkill Challenge." arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.04448 (2022).
2) Zia, A., Bhattacharyya, K., Liu, X., Wang, Z., Kondo, S., Colleoni, E., ... & Jarc, A. (2021). Surgical Visual Domain Adaptation: Results from the MICCAI 2020 SurgVisDom Challenge. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.13644.
3) Brown, K. C., Bhattacharyya, K. D., Kulason, S., Zia, A., & Jarc, A. (2020). How to Bring Surgery to the Next Level: Interpretable Skills Assessment in Robotic-Assisted Surgery. Visceral Medicine, 36(6), 463-470.
4) Bhattacharyya, K. (2019). Deciding under Duress: Motor Decisions of Larval Zebrafish under Attack (Doctoral dissertation, Northwestern University).
5) Bhattacharyya, KD, McLean, DL, MacIver, MA, "Visual threat assessment and reticulospinal encoding of calibrated responses in larval zebrafish,” Current Biology (2017). Cell Press.
These and other publications available on the Google Scholar page.
Awards and honors
NSF Graduate Research Fellow | SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics | Tau Beta Pi