shortcut-gap reduction0.443 → 0.137
HEALTHCARE AI · COMPUTER VISION · EMBODIED INTELLIGENCE
I build AI that stays intelligent when the shortcut breaks.
I’m Zeeshan Modi—an AI/ML engineer and M.Sc. AIIS student in Bremen, working across robust medical imaging, robotics, neurotechnology and local-first AI systems.
ZM / SIGNAL-01LIVE
- BASE
- Bremen, DE
- FOCUS
- Robust AI
- STATUS
- Open to work
AI in Health HackathonUBRA · Bremen
successful verification runsmulti-seed validation
merged MONAI + DFKI fixesproduction codebases
01 / SELECTED INTELLIGENCE
Not just models. Systems with evidence.
Selected from my GitHub and academic work: projects where the problem, engineering decisions and outcome can all be inspected.
FLAGSHIP 01HEALTHCARE AI / MODEL ROBUSTNESS
Pneumothorax Detection Without the Easy Shortcut
The baseline chest X-ray classifier could learn “drain = pneumothorax” instead of learning the condition itself. I treated that failure mode as the real problem—not just the leaderboard score.
BASELINE GAP0.443
ROBUST GAP0.137
−69%INTERVENTION
2.5× minority-group WeightedRandomSampler with DenseNet121.
VALIDATION
14 successful runs across different seeds; 85.7% met the target gap.
RECOGNITION
1st place · UBRA / University of Bremen AI in Health Hackathon.
02Embodied AI / Robotics
Autonomous Navigate-to-Grasp Robot
A team-built cognitive-motor stack for a simulated robot that must navigate a randomized room, avoid obstacles, reach a table and grasp a target object.
- CONTEXT
- Integrated intelligent-systems project
- SYSTEM
- PyBullet · URDF · RANSAC · PCA · Particle Filter · PID · Prolog · Inverse Kinematics
Sense → Think → Act10-module cognitive architecture
03Neurotechnology / Signal AI
EEG Motor Imagery Classification
A reproducible pipeline for distinguishing imagined hand and foot movement from 64-channel EEG recordings using compact neural architectures.
- CONTEXT
- Advanced Machine Learning · Uni Bremen
- SYSTEM
- PhysioNet EEGMMIDB · 8–30 Hz filtering · EEGNet · Shallow ConvNet · repeated runs
64 chlearning curves + statistical comparison
SYSTEMS THAT SHIP
From capability to usable workflow.
04Local AI / Retrieval
Local-first RAG Application
A private, CPU-friendly knowledge system with hybrid retrieval, reranking, streaming answers, source citations, sessions and collection portability.
No cloud API keys05Speech AI / Media Automation
Whisper Media Engine
A practical workflow that turns an MP3 into an AI transcript, SRT captions and an animated MP4 with synced subtitles and waveform visuals.
Audio → usable media02 / OPEN-SOURCE TRANSMISSION
Small patches. Real codebases.
Contributions across medical imaging, robotics simulation and computer-vision tooling—where changes need to fit systems other people already depend on.
MERGEDPR #8818
Project MONAI
Registered the LocalNormalizedCrossCorrelationLoss kernel correctly as a model buffer.
MERGEDPR #73
DFKI · deformable_gym
Updated MJCF assets for compatibility with MuJoCo 3.2.4 and newer releases.
PATCHESPR #2204 / #2205
Roboflow · supervision
Proposed fixes for audio preservation during video export and area output in CSV exports.
ZM / BREMENN53°04′E8°48′2026
03 / PROFILE
Curiosity, engineered into useful systems.
I’m an AI/ML engineer who enjoys the full arc: finding the real failure mode, testing assumptions, building the system and making the result understandable to others.
My path has moved from computer science and AI in India, through an exchange semester in Ankara, to an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems at the University of Bremen. Today I work across healthcare AI, computer vision, robotics, signal processing and local language systems.
I also teach Python and take on selected freelance work through Litends—now my independent AI and web practice, not an active startup.
University of Bremen · Germany
Chandigarh University · First Division with Distinction
Python Tutor · Student Assistant
HereAhead · University of BremenLed weekly programming sessions for M.Sc. students, designed practical exercises and documented course knowledge for continuity.
Machine Learning & AI Intern
Techlive SolutionsFine-tuned deep-learning models and built BERT recommendation and NER pipelines exposed through REST APIs.
Independent AI & Web Freelancer
Litends · Freelance practiceFocused AI tools, automation and modern web applications. Litends began as a startup exploration and now serves as my independent practice.
04 / CAPABILITY MAP
The stack follows the problem.
I care less about collecting tool logos and more about combining the right methods into an inspectable, usable system.
Perception
Medical imaging · OpenCV · DICOM · XAI · robustness testing · signal processing
Language
Transformers · RAG · BM25 · dense retrieval · NER · local LLM systems
Embodied systems
Robotics · PyBullet · ROS · planning · PID · particle filters · RANSAC
Shipping
FastAPI · Docker · Streamlit · Gradio · MLflow · GitHub Actions · Linux
011st Place
AI in Health Hackathon · 2025
022nd Place
BRIDGE “Start it up! Gesundheit” · 2025
14Student Track
Bremen Big Data Challenge · 2026
2×Accepted papers
Cybersecurity + career recommendation · 2024
AVAILABLE / BREMEN / REMOTE / GERMANY
Have a hard problem worth making intelligent?
I’m open to Werkstudent, HiWi, internship and junior AI/ML roles, as well as selected freelance AI and web projects.