Bio

I am a final-year undergraduate studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, planning to pursue a PhD in Computer Science. My research interests lie in methods for generative modeling, building faster, more controllable, and more reliable generative models, and generative models for science, leveraging generative models to dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific progress.

I currently work with Prof. Kim-Lien Nguyen on k-space, the Fourier (spectral) domain, reconstruction and 5D MRI reconstruction at the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Lab at the David Geffen School of Medicine. I also work with Prof. Yuchen Cui on zero shot imitation learning at the Robotic Intelligence Lab. My research is funded by the James T. Henry and Meredith Henry UCLA Undergraduate Research Scholarship. I have previously worked at Amazon Project Kuiper (Leo), Leidos AI/ML Research Accelerator, Scale AI, and Q.ai (Acquired by Apple).

Publications

KARP: K-space Accelerated Reconstruction with Physics Priors
Amit Rand*, Thomas Coudert*, Zhenyang Ming, Xinran Gao, Dan Ruan, Kim-Lien Nguyen
2026 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. In preparation.
MCCVDM architecture diagram
Complex-valued diffusion in k-space for accelerated MRI reconstruction
Amit Rand, Thomas Coudert, Zhengyang Ming, Xinran Gao, Dan Ruan, Kim-Lien Nguyen
White-paper
Diffusion-based k-space inpainting for improved 5D free-running CMR reconstruction
Thomas Coudert, Amit Rand, Xinran Gao, Zhenyang Ming, J. Paul Finn, Dan Ruan, Kim-Lien Nguyen
2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition. Cape Town, South Africa
Frequency-domain grounding architecture
Where Do Language Models Perceive? Frequency-Domain Grounding for Audio-Vision-Language
Amit Rand, Aman Desai
White-paper
MXA architecture diagram
Beyond Conventional Transformers: A Medical X-ray Attention Block for Improved Multi-Label Diagnosis
Amit Rand, Hadi Ibrahim
2025 NeurIPS, Imageomics: Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images Using AI. San Diego, California, USA