Sumukh Vasisht Shankar

I’m Sumukh Vasisht Shankar, Lead Data Scientist specializing in cardiovascular research, AI deployment, and natural language processing. I’ve led projects at Yale’s Cardiovascular Data Science Lab with Dr. Rohan Khera and Northeastern’s Geometric Learning Lab with Dr. Robin Walters.

My work spans deep learning, generative models, retrieval-augmented systems, Edge AI, and full-stack ML deployment with DevOps.

Updates

07/21/2025: Promoted to the position of Lead Data Scientist at CarDS Lab!
03/29/2025: Presented a poster on "A NOVEL APPLICATION OF OPEN-SOURCE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO DETECT VISIBLE AND HIDDEN CLINICAL FEATURES IN 12-LEAD ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS" ACC Scientific Sessions 2025 held at Chicago, Illinois.
11/16/2024: Presented a moderated poster on 'Scalable Phenotyping of Heart Failure Across Multicenter, Non-Interoperable Health Systems Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Large Language Models' at AHA Scientific Sessions 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.
11/10/2024: Invited panelist at the IEEE BHI 2024 Conference's workshop on Digital Twins in Cardiometabolic Health in Houston, Texas.
10/11/2024: "Automated Transformation of Unstructured Cardiovascular Diagnostic Reports into Structured Datasets Using Sequentially Deployed Large Language Models" submitted to European Heart Journal - Digital Health.
09/20/2024: Invited as a speaker to talk about RAG and NLP at Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science.!
08/07/2024: Abstract on development of RAG for structured EHR data accepted to AHA 2024.
06/20/2024: Presented 'Equivariant Neural Networks for Dynamic Spatial Light Modulator' at the AI in Materials Conference in Ohio
05/22/2024: Completed a year at CarDS Lab!
02/02/2024: Presented a poster on 'Development and Feasibility Evaluation of a Multiplatform Artificial Intelligence Toolkit for Portable and Wearable Device Electrocardiograms' at the AI in Medicine Symposium at Yale University
12/10/2023: Presented a poster on 'RCT-Twin-GAN' at the ML for Health workshop in New Orleans
05/22/2023: Started a full time position at the Cardiovascular Data Science Lab at Yale University as a Data Scientist
05/07/2023: Graduated from Northeastern University with a Masters in Data Science (3.92 GPA)
05/05/2023: Won the Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Research!
01/07/2023: Presented a poster on 'Controlling Dynamic Spatial Light Modulators with ENN' at ML for Materials workshop at ICLR 2023
07/15/2023: Awarded with the Khoury Research Apprenticeship grant for 2 semesters
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