Numerous publications in journals, book chapters, and refereed conferences
Holds an omnibus patent
Recipient of two Best Paper Awards in machine learning and 3D medical image segmentation
Served as Area Chair and Senior Program Committee member for top conferences including AAAI, MICCAI, and MIDL
Served as Program Committee member/Reviewer for prestigious venues including AAAI, ACM HEALTH, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, IEEE TAI, IEEE TMI, ISBI, Medical Physics, MICCAI, NeurIPS, and WACV
Recent acceptances include papers in Nature Scientific Reports, MELBA, MICCAI 2025 DeCaF workshop, GenAI4Health @NeurIPS 2025, and SPIE Medical Imaging 2026
Awarded the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar Award by UK Engineering
Background
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky
Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Scholar of the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
Affiliated faculty member at the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Markey Cancer Center, and UNITE Research Priority Area
Research and teaching focus on artificial intelligence and computer vision with applications in medicine, climate change, and social sciences
Recent work emphasizes learning with limited labeled data using generative AI, multimodal fusion, and self-supervised learning