Ph.D. Student · University of Zurich

Chinmay Prabhakar

Medical image computing · geometric deep learning · generative models

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Quantitative Biomedicine at the University of Zurich. I work on machine learning methods for understanding and generating complex biomedical structures, particularly vascular anatomy.

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Research output

Selected publications

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ECCV 2026Spotlight2026

VesselTok: Tokenizing Vessel-like 3D Biomedical Graph Representations for Reconstruction and Generation

Learning compact tokens for intricate 3D vascular and airway graphs, enabling reconstruction, generation, and completion.

C. Prabhakar, B. Wittmann, T. Amiranashvili, P. Büschl, E. de la Rosa, J. McGinnis, B. Wiestler, B. Menze, and S. Shit.

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VesselTok pipeline overview
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VesselTok pipeline overview.

About

Background

Education

2021 – present

Ph.D., University of Zurich, Switzerland

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine

2017 – 2020

M.Sc. Informatics, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Thesis: Natural Language Based 3D Object Localization in Volumetric Grids.

2010 – 2014

B.E. Computer Science, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India

Industry Experience

2018 – 2019

Software Developer (Work Student), Intel

Munich, Germany

2014 – 2017

Analyst-System Developer, Verizon Data Services

Hyderabad, India

Service & Miscellaneous

2024 – 2025

Co-organizer

TopCoW and TopBrain MICCAI challenges

2022

Tutor

EXCITE Summer School — Applications of Machine Learning in Medical Domain