Mahir Patel
665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
mahirp@bu.edu
mahirp@bu.edu
Third-Year Computer Vision Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Margrit Betke, Prof. Bryan Plummer, and Prof. Michael Hasselmo. I am interested in efficiently interpreting the environment from different modalities. Outside of academia, I enjoy listening / playing heavy metal, horror movies, and video games!
Research Projects
A deep-learned pose optimizer framework that uses spatio-temporal architecture to learn postural information.
Publications
Journals, Conference, and Thesis
Paper: Paired yeast one-hybrid assays to detect DNA-binding cooperativity and antagonism across transcription factors - Nature Communications
Berenson, Lane, Soto-Ugaldi, Patel, Ciausu, Li, Chen, Shah, Santoso, Liu, Spirohn,
Hao, Hill, Vidal, Fuxman Bass
October 2023
Paper: Animal Pose Tracking: 3D Multimodal Dataset and Token-based Pose Optimization - IJCV
Patel, Gu, Carstensen, Hasselmo, Betke
November 2022
Thesis: Learned Structural And Temporal Context For Dynamic 3d Pose Optimization And Tracking - BU
Patel
May 2022
Abstract & Posters
Abstract: BU-CVKit: Extendable Computer Vision Framework for Behavioral Neuroscience - Society For Neuroscience
Patel, Carstensen, Gu, Malmberg, Betke, Hasselmo
November 2023
Abstract: Longitudinal tracking of spatial responses to environmental manipulations in the retro-splenial cortex - Society for Neuroscience
Malmberg, Mattessich, Carstensen, LaChance, Patel, Everett, Alexander, Goddard,
Hasselmo
November 2023
Poster: BU-CVKit: Extendable Computer Vision Framework for Species Independent Tracking and Analysis - CV4Animals@CVPR
Patel, Carstensen, Gu, Hasselmo, Betke
June 2023
Poster: Animal Pose Tracking: 3D Multimodal Dataset and Token-based Pose Optimization - CV4Animals@CVPR
Patel, Gu, Carstensen, Hasselmo, Betke
June 2022
Poster: A Rate Code of Environmental Alteration and High-Resolution 3D Pose Tracking During Behavior - BU
Carstensen, Patel, Gu, Alexander, Chapman, Lee, Betke, Hasselmo
May 2022
Abstract: Neural correlates of environmental alterations in retro-splenial cortex and high-resolution infrared tracking of behavior
Carstensen, Alexander, Chapman, Lee, Patel, Gu, Jalal, Betke, Hasselmo
2021
Professional Experience
Research Technician
Psychology and Brain science @ BU
- Setting up multi-view tracking cameras and hardware synchronization.
- Writing recording software and neural data analysis/visualizing tools.
- Designing new architecture for end-to-end 3D pose estimation and optimization.
June 2022 - June 2023
Academic Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Neuro-Autonomous Robotics @ BU
- Implemented 3D reconstruction from multi-view thermal cameras and designed configurable software to generate analytical data such as displacement vectors and velocity vectors.
- Customized the 3D calibration cube with Peltier devices for thermal cameras.
- Annotated 100s of frames for each view and trained deep neural network to generate landmarks on rodents.
- Ported old proprietary FLIR SFMOV video editing code to Linux Systems.
September 2020 - May 2022
Research Affiliate
Strategic Analytics Lab, Harvard Medical School
- Scraped more than 15,000 research articles from PubMed, from different reputed journals.
- Created a software to help annotate abstracts and build the dataset.
- Fine tuned PubMedBERT by Microsoft to classify research articles.
June 2021 - December 2021
Research Engineer Volunteer
Disha Y1H Analyzer @ Fuxman Bass Lab
- Designed a computer vision pipeline to localize and segment quad-colonies from Yeast one-hybrid assay images, assigning scores to represent the interactions of different permutation of Transcription Factors, to accelerate the research in fields like Cancer research and immune responses.
February 2021 - Present
Education
Boston University
Ph.D.- Computer Vision
September 2023 -
September 2020 - May 2022
June 2014 - May 2018