about

I'm Nandhakumar, a research engineer, and I've spent over three years building AI/ML applications for clinical trials.

The research is the applied kind. I start from a problem, survey what exists or has just been published, test what holds up against real data, and ship what survives. The research and the engineering aren't separate jobs; the second is what the first is for.

Life sciences is where I work, not the limit of what I can work on. I didn't know the domain when I started — I learned its standards and constraints because the problems required it. That's the part that carries.

Outside of work I write, contribute to open source, give talks, enter hackathons and build my own projects.