Victor Ion Butoi
PhD Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS,
CSAIL
vbutoi@mit.edu
Greetings! I am a 5th year Computer Science PhD student at MIT fortunate enough to be advised by Professors Adrian Dalca and John Guttag as a part of the Clinical and Applied Machine Learning (CAML) Group. I am interested in problems lying at the core of machine learning and computer vision, often with applications to healthcare. I'm very involved in the ML community here at MIT. Previously, I was a head TA for our Deep Learning course (over 600 students!) and a co-organizer of ML Tea.
My work has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously, I studied Computer Science at Cornell University advised by Mert Sabuncu, where I was a Merrill Presidential Scholar for the Computer Science department and a Tanner-Dean Scholar for the School of Arts and Sciences.
I've also had the chance to intern at some very cool places doing cool things — see the bio below. If you are interested in collaborating, please do reach out!
Selected Works
FleXray: Flexible Full-Body X-ray Segmentation
UniverSeg: Universal Medical Image Segmentation
VoxelPrompt: A Vision-Language Agent for Grounded Medical Image Analysis
Other Works
Generative Active Learning for the Search of Small-molecule Protein Binders
Empirical Analysis of a Segmentation Foundation Model in Prostate Imaging
Reviewer Service
AutoML, MIDL, ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS
Bio
Previously, I have been lucky enough to work with:
- Evan Hernandez at OpenEvidence on evals for clinical VLM models.
- Meet Shah and Scott Roy at Waymo on inference-time embedding flexibility for 3D object detection.
- Dr. Leonid Karlinsky and Dr. Rogerio Feris at IBM on fusing large image and language models.
- Dr. Felix Wu and Prof. Kilian Weinberger at ASAPP on sequence modeling using state-space models.
- Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Pierre-Luc Bacon at MILA on ML for drug discovery and uncertainty quantification.
- Dr. Florin Ghesu at Siemens Healthineers on biomedical imaging for lung diagnostics.