Aman Bhardwaj

Aman Bhardwaj

PhD Researcher | AI & Machine Learning | Healthcare For Developing Nations

IIT Delhi • IBM Research • NIT Hamirpur

About Me

Interdisciplinary researcher bridging mathematics, machine learning, and medicine to develop interpretable, physiology-informed AI for healthcare in resource-constrained settings.

I pioneer constrained optimization frameworks that embed domain knowledge into computational models, challenging the black-box paradigm of deep learning. My research addresses healthcare disparities in developing nations through mathematically principled, transparent, and clinically actionable diagnostic systems deployed in collaboration with AIIMS-Delhi and AFMC-Pune.

As a researcher at IBM India Research Lab, I advance trustworthy and enterprise-scale AI systems, focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs) for mission-critical legacy code modernization in financial and healthcare domains, with expertise in RAG, AI-agents, neural machine translation, and prompt-engineering.

Research Focus

Physiology-Informed AI

Developing Physiology-informed Models that interpretable ECG analysis and holistic cardiac profiling from long term recording.

Enterprise AI Systems

Architecting spec-driven AI-workflows for legacy enterprise-scale system modernization. Garnered various skills including LLMs, RAG, and AI Agents.

Brain Stroke Diagnosis

Creating robust ML frameworks for early stroke diagnosis in resource-limited environments, addressing the 3rd leading cause of disability and death globally through clinical diagnostic systems.

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi)

Oct 2022 - Present

  • CGPA: 9.43/10
  • Research Focus: Physiology-informed Representation Learning from Electrocardiograms
  • Advisor: Prof. Rahul Garg (CSE, IIT-Delhi), Prof. Srikanta Bedathur (CSE, IIT-Delhi), and Dr. Vishnu VY (AIIMS-Delhi)
  • Clinical Collaborators: AIIMS-Delhi & INHS Aswini-Mumbai

MS (Research) in Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi)

Jan 2020 - Jun 2022

  • CGPA: 9.68/10
  • Thesis: Machine Learning Based Stroke Detection and Stroke Type Identification in Resource Limitations
  • Advisor: Prof. Rahul Garg | Clinical Co-investigator: Dr. VY Vishnu (AIIMS-Delhi) and Dr. Vinny Wilson (AFMC-Pune)

B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering

National Institute of Technology Hamirpur (NIT-Hamirpur)

2012 - 2016

  • CGPA: 8.73/10
  • President, Society for Promotion of Electronics Culture (SPEC)
  • Placement Coordinator

Selected Publications

Refining LLM-Based COBOL-to-Java Translation via Natural Language Summary Augmentation

33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) 2026

A. Bhardwaj, V. Arya, Y. Sabharwal.

Oral Presentation, Limassol, Cyprus

A novel machine learning framework for stroke type identification in resource constrained settings with robustness to missing data

Nature Scientific Reports, 2025

A. Bhardwaj, Y Antil, MVP Srivastava, PW Vinny, VY Vishnu, R Garg

Impact Factor: 4.3

Calibrating machine learning models for accurate stroke type prediction in low resource settings

International Journal of Stroke, 2024

A Mehta, A Bhardwaj, Y Antil, MVP Srivastava, VP Wilson, V Vishnu, R Garg

Impact Factor: 8.7

Lost In The Past: How domain shift in data impacts the performance of ML-based models for Stroke type identification

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2023

A. Bhardwaj, Y Antil, MVP Srivastava, PW Vinny, VY Vishnu, R Garg

Poster Presentation, Montreal, Canada. Impact Factor: 3.2

A View Independent Classification Framework for Yoga Postures

Springer Nature Computer Science, 2022

M Chasmai, N Das, A. Bhardwaj, R Garg

Machine Learning Based Reanalysis of Clinical Scores for Distinguishing Between Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke in Low Resource Setting

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2022

A. Bhardwaj, MVP Srivastava, PV Wilson, A Mehndiratta, VY Vishnu, R Garg

Poster Presentation, Montreal, Canada. Impact Factor: 2.67

Protocol for visual data collection to enable Computer Vision and Deep Learning for the identification of Stroke and Stroke-type in resource limitations

Journal of the Neurological Sciences, World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2023

A. Bhardwaj, Y Antil, MVP Srivastava, PW Vinny, VY Vishnu, R Garg

Oral Presentation, Montreal, Canada

Clinical Identification Of Stroke And Stroke Type Via Clinical Attributes And Gait Analysis In Resource Limited Environment

International Journal of Stroke, World Stroke Congress 2022

A. Bhardwaj, Y Antil, MVP Srivastava, PW Vinny, VY Vishnu, R Garg

Oral Communication, Impact Factor: 6.948

Research Projects

Physiology-informed Models

PhD Research (Ongoing)

Constrained optimization algorithm integrating finite cardiac conduction velocities for interpretable ECG alignment. Matches deep learning performance while maintaining complete clinical interpretability.

Optimization Healthcare AI Interpretability

Wearable Biomarker Monitoring

Ongoing Research

Non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood glucose and electrolytes via wearable devices for cardio-cerebrovascular risk assessment.

Wearables Signal Processing Healthcare

LLM-based Legacy Systems modernization

IBM Research

Transformer-based models for neural machine translation and automated code generation across programming languages with RAG and agentic AI workflows.

LLMs RAG AI Agents Watson Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z)

Early Stroke Diagnosis System

Master's Research

Robust ML framework for stroke type identification handling missing data and class imbalance. Enables preliminary diagnosis without neuroimaging in resource-constrained environments.

Machine Learning Clinical AI AIIMS Collaboration

Oblique Sparce Factor Models

Research Tool

Generalized Oblique Sparse Factor Model - doubly-penalized matrix decomposition for exploratory analysis with superior sparsity and interpretability on small datasets.

Matrix Decomposition Sparse Models Interpretability

Computer Vision for Stroke Screening

Clinical Collaboration

10-test audio-visual protocol combining NIHSS-8 and Yoga-inspired postures for deep learning gait analysis. Piloted at AIIMS-Delhi.

Computer Vision Deep Learning Clinical Validation

Recent News & Updates

Mar 2026

Oral Presentation at SANER 2026, Limassol, Cyprus

Presented paper titled "Refining LLM-based COBOL-to-Java Translation via Natural Language Summary Augmentation"

Dec 2025

Paper Accepted at SANER 2026

My first industrial paper at IBM Research in collaboration with Vijay Arya and Yogish Sabharwal.

Oct 2025

Paper Accepted at Nature Scientific Reports

Title: A Novel Machine Learning Framework for Stroke Type Identification in Resource Constrained Settings with Robustness to Missing Data

Sep 2025

Program Committee Member

Selected as Program Committee Member (Applied Data Science Track) for ACM 13th International Conference on Data Science (CODS-COMAD) 2025

Jul 2024

Joined IBM Research

Started as Research Engineer at IBM India Research Lab, AI4Code Team, working on LLMs and enterprise AI systems

Mar 2024

SERB Core Research Grant

Awarded Core Research Grant by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), DST, Government of India for prospective diagnostic study on wearable devices in acute stroke patients

Dec 2023

Google Research Week 2023

Selected for Google Research Week 2023 in Bengaluru, featuring workshops and keynote sessions on machine learning foundations

Jun 2023

WCN 2023 Acceptance

Two abstracts accepted at World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2023, Montreal, Canada - one poster and one oral presentation

Jun 2023

PhD Coursework Completed

Completed PhD coursework with CGPA 9.43/10 at IIT Delhi

Awards & Honors

All India Certificate of Merit, Science

2009

Ranked in AISSE, CBSE

National-Level Winner

2020

Visual Data Challenge, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP) 2020

Institute Fellowships

2020, 2022

PhD Fellowship (2022) and MS Fellowship (2020) from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Get In Touch

I'm always interested in discussing research collaborations, healthcare AI projects, or opportunities in interpretable machine learning. Feel free to reach out!

Location

Room 409, SIT-Building, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India