I am a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaus Maier-Hein at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany. I am also affiliated with Heidelberg University, Germany.

My research interests broadly intersect machine learning and medical image analysis.

My PhD thesis focuses on representation learning in Transformers and self-attention based networks for segmenting organs and pathologies in radiological images. The insights from my work demonstrate noticeable challenges for transformer-based networks for learning representations for on small and sparsely-annotated medical image datasets. My work also demonstrates that convolutional architectures with Transformer-based scaling are ideal for medical image segmentation.