About

I'm a medical student at UCL interested in computational approaches to behavioural neuroscience and psychiatry. I am also personally inclined towards the philosophy and phenomenology of psychopathology – finding continuity between these two paradigms is my primary academic goal.

You can contact me via email at [firstname] at ponnekanti dot net.

Previous Work

• 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
• Identifying novel congenital cataract-causing variants using the NGS pipeline (paper available 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

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