Vedant Sheel

MIT CSAILRemote

• Working with Dr. Adrian Dalca to develop a longitudinal Vision Transformer with cross-attention across scan timepoints, modeling spatial disease progression in pulmonary fibrosis from HRCT imaging. Pretrained via Masked Autoencoder on unlabeled chest CT data and fine-tuned for FVC decline prediction.
• Researching KV cache eviction policies and speculative decoding to optimize transformer inference throughput at long contexts (32k+ tokens), targeting tokens-per-dollar efficiency for production LLM deployment.

McMaster UniversityHamilton, ON

• Engineered a multi-model machine learning system for pulmonary fibrosis prognosis, integrating a self-attention CNN to classify fibrotic tissue patterns, reaching ±47 mL error on ~6000 mL lung volumes.
• Conducting research on in-clinic datasets under Prof. Martin Kolb, implementing lung volume quantification techniques on CT scans that improved lung volume readings by 17%.

Alphatech Systems & ConsultingRemote

• Supported enterprise automation, cloud services, and analytics projects for government and commercial clients, developing scripts that automated routine data processing, security log analysis, and reporting workflows, cutting manual work for the team by over 30%.
• Assisted with backend development including API integration, database optimization, and performance testing on enterprise applications built with SAP and Oracle, and contributed to network security assessments and cloud migration planning using AWS tools.

Clearcable NetworksHamilton, ON

• Enhanced the company's internal support systems, improving response accuracy and user engagement by 35%, resulting in faster client communication and support resolution times.
• Developed automation scripts to streamline manual workflows, including emergency ticket information retrieval from clients, cutting response time by 43%.

the University of WaterlooWaterloo, ON

• Mentored by Prof. Otman Basir and PhD student Daniel Zadeh on machine learning and neural network design.
• Gained hands-on experience in model development, optimization, and deployment for real-time computer vision, engineering a real-time ASL-to-text-to-voice translator with 98.4% accuracy.

KumonPort Elgin, ON

• Taught advanced math to older students at age 14, supporting problem-solving and analytical skills over 200+ hours while assisting instructors with grading and tracking student progress.