Arnold Caleb Asiimwe

Arnold, originally from Isingiro (Uganda), is one of the I.I. Rabi Scholars and an undergraduate in the class of 2025 at Columbia University, majoring in computer science and chemistry. He is advised by Prof. Carl Vondrick in the Computer Vision lab, Prof. Elias B. Issa at the Zuckerman Institute and Dr. Mary Salvatore at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

His research is broadly focused on applying computer vision, robotics and language learning to problems in medicine and surgery. His research interests range from multimodal machine learning, high-performance machine learning, enhancing model explainability and, more recently, dynamic scene representation with a focus on model efficiency motivated by insights from neuroscience.

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
with Prof. Kaoutar El Maghraoui.
Harvard Medical School (DBMI)
with Prof. Pranav Rajpurkar.

High Performance Machine Learning
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Fall 2024 (Prof. Kaoutar El Maghraoui)
Computer Vision II
Head Teaching Assistant
Spring 2024 (Prof. Carl Vondrick)
Frontiers of Science
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2022, 2023, 2024
Machine Learning and Python fundamentals
Laidlaw Scholar Graduate Tutor
Summer A 2024

MedVisProg: Medical Visual Programming
Ongoing Research (Prototype)
Demo

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MedAutoCorrect: Image-conditioned autocorrection in medical reporting
A.C. Asiimwe, D. Surís, P. Rajpurkar & C. Vondrick
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference 2024
Paper | Project Page

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EfficientMedSAM: Accelerating Medical Image Segmentation via Neural Architecture Search and Knowledge Distillation
A.C. Asiimwe, W. Das, H. Benmeziane & K. El Maghraoui
IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications 2024
Paper | Project Page

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Breast Collagen Organization: Variance by Patient Age and Breast Quadrant
A.C. Asiimwe, M. Pernia & M. Salvatore
Diagnostics 2024
Cardiothoracic Imaging: Recent Techniques and Applications in Diagnostics, Second Edition
Paper

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Can Hounsfield units on chest CT characterize breast nodules as cystic or solid?
K. Capaccione, E. Desperito, A.C. Asiimwe & M. Salvatore
Translational Breast Cancer Research 2024
Paper

Contact: aa4870[at]columbia[dot]edu