The Menon Lab Blog

Discoveries from the AI/ML ecosystem — interesting projects, tools, libraries, and research worth knowing about. Written by Dr. Prahlad G. Menon, a Carnegie Mellon PhD with 100+ publications and experience across healthcare AI, computer vision, NLP, and quantitative analytics.

Topics We Cover

AI Agents

Autonomous AI systems that browse the web, write code, conduct research, and complete complex tasks with minimal human intervention.

LLMs

Large language models from frontier labs — architecture innovations, benchmarks, fine-tuning techniques, and practical deployment strategies.

RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation systems that ground LLM responses in real documents, enabling accurate and verifiable AI outputs.

Computer Vision

Image segmentation, object detection, 3D reconstruction, and multimodal vision-language models pushing the boundaries of visual AI.

Healthcare AI

Medical image analysis, clinical decision support, drug discovery, and AI applications transforming patient care and biomedical research.

Open Source Tools

Battle-tested open source libraries, frameworks, and tools that accelerate AI/ML development — from training to deployment.

About the Author

Dr. Prahlad G. Menon is the founder of QuantMD and ThinkCreate.AI. With a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, PMP certification, and NVIDIA GenAI LLMs credentials, he brings deep expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and data science. His work spans healthcare AI, quantitative finance, manufacturing analytics, and STEM education.

The blog curates noteworthy projects and tools from the rapidly evolving AI/ML landscape, providing hands-on reviews, technical context, and practical insights for researchers, engineers, and technology leaders.