About

Pratik Agarwal is an Algorithm Developer at AlgoSurg Inc., where he is responsible for building automation tools to assist surgeons with pre-operative planning and intra-operative guidance. With 1.85 years of relevant experience, Pratik has an impressive background in the field of computer science and engineering. Before joining AlgoSurg, Pratik worked as a Business Analyst at Innovaccer, where he worked with the Strategy and Accounts Management team to identify new business opportunities with existing clientele. He also worked as a Data Science Engineer, where he primarily worked on projects involving Natural Language Processing and Statistical Machine Learning. Pratik's passion for accessible healthcare led him to work on a project at MIT Media Lab aimed at building an automated diagnostic platform that acts as a mediator between doctors and patients. During the workshop, he built an automated segmentation tool in Python using OpenCV to segment out the affected regions in the mouth from videos obtained using fluorescence of different bacteria. The tool also gives doctors the ability to mark any affected regions which might have been missed by the program and delete any inappropriate markings. Pratik holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he completed in 2021. He also has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Engineering Physics from IIT Bombay, which he completed in 2016. Pratik's TechStack includes ML, NLP, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, OpenCV, and Python. He is a highly skilled Algorithm Developer with a passion for accessible healthcare and a track record of delivering high-quality results.