Manav Ponnekanti
And now I see with eye serene / The very pulse of the machine;
I am a medical student at UCL interested in the eyes, the brain, and computational methods that help us better understand their function. I am currently training large language models on GAD-7 and PHQ-9 responses in an effort to surface clinically useful latent factors that influence self-report at the Applied Computational Psychiatry Lab. I have previously worked on:
- Identifying novel congenital cataract-causing variants using the NGS pipeline (paper here)
- Developing a synthetic degradation model for retinal fundus images to generate robust pairwise training data for image enhancement networks at Pontikos Lab
- Analysing the video output of the adaptive optics laser scanning ophthalmoscope at Michaelides Lab
In my free time I run a book club, which you can find out more about here. You can contact me via: