Bhanu Prasanna

Experience

Professional experience

  1. – 2 yrs 4 mos

    Research assistant, AI and data engineering

    Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Uniklinik Köln

    • Took a clinical imaging platform from a Python prototype to production on InterSystems IRIS for Health, with DICOM and FHIR workflows. It handles more than 10,000 DICOM objects a day.
    • Built the cohort search that radiologists and their data scientists run on their own imaging data, a Dash and FastAPI app behind Keycloak sign-in. With it, Uniklinik Köln became one of five hospitals in Germany that can deliver radiological data through the FDPG portal.
    • Co-developed WavePrep, the institute's open-source tool that turns ICU waveform recordings into datasets ready for machine learning. Worked from the issues its researchers filed: designed and shipped record selection by clinical criteria and Croissant metadata export, and reworked the visual report for checking each processing step.
    • Cut WavePrep's configuration down once they had tried it: removed the parameters they found confusing, reduced the ventilation filter to four settings, and documented the rest.
    • Benchmarked five model architectures on five clinical datasets, where multi-task learning beat the single-task baselines by 35% in accuracy. Then measured, across eight patient cohorts, how much a shift in the data costs a model in error.
    • Wrote up the work with clinicians and data scientists in two peer-reviewed publications, and trained 25 researchers in reproducible data management.

Education

  1. –

    M.Sc. Data Science

    TU Dortmund, Germany

    My thesis, Stable Diffusion for BayesFlow, was on probabilistic diffusion models for simulation-based inference.

  2. –

    B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering

    PVPSIT, Vijayawada, India

Hackathons

Eleven across Germany and Europe in 2025 and 2026, with four awards among them. Here are a few, and one from earlier.

  1. {Tech: Europe} AI Hackathon

    Munich

    Track winner

    Four of us built NegoatAI over a weekend. It won the Kontext track, for the best use of Kontext.dev.

    The team stands with the organisers at the front of the room, holding the prize: a black box tied with a red ribbon.
    Santhosh Sakthivinayagam27 Oct 2025View on LinkedIn

  2. SBC 2025 Awards

    CONF3RENCE 2025

    2nd place · €20,000

    Our team, BONKchain, came second and took home €20,000.

    The team on stage at CONF3RENCE with a cheque that reads BONKchain, 20,000 EUR, 2nd winner of the SBC 25.
    CONF3RENCE12 Sep 2025View on X

  3. Startup Camp Bremen

    Winner

    I joined a team at the camp and we won. That team is now a company, Insytes.

  4. National Level Hackathon

    VIT-AP University

    3rd prize

    We came third. The university's film of the event shows the prize.

    VIT-APAfter movieWatch on YouTube