News Updates (Fall 2022 - Present)

[Aug 2026]

• Promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University.

• Awarded the NSF CAREER Award ($406,481) as Principal Investigator for the project "CAREER: Attending & Bridging Context In Vision-Language Modeling for Medical Image Analysis".

• Two papers were accepted for presentation at the 2026 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2026).

• Our paper titled "Clinical Feasibility of Low-Magnification Fluorescence Imaging for Breast Cancer Margin Detection Using Texture Analysis and Deep Learning" was accepted for publication in Biomedical Optics Express.

[Jul 2026]

• Our paper titled "BrainKODE: Controlled Koopman Dynamics over Longitudinal Structure-Function Coupling for Early Prediction of Adolescent Substance Use" was accepted at the 2026 International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2026).

• Presented two papers at the 2026 IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2026), including an oral presentation by Ph.D. student Nagur Shareef Shaik.

[May 2026]

• Presented two papers at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2026), including an oral presentation by Ph.D. student Badhan Mazumder.

[Apr 2026]

• Presented two papers as oral presentations at the 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026).

[Feb 2026]

• Our paper "Early Postnatal Changes in Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and Subsequent Neurodevelopment in Preterm Infants" was published in Frontiers in Endocrinology.

[Jan 2026]

• Our paper "Effective Transfer of Tumor Annotations from H&E to Fluorescence Images of Breast and Lung Tissues" was published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics.

[Dec 2025]

• Ph.D. students Nagur Shareef Shaik and Badhan Mazumder received the 2026 GSU CS Graduate Research Award and the 2026 GSU Foundation Award: Dean's Graduate Research Grants (Best Graduate Student Awards), respectively.

[Nov 2025]

• Paper titled "DiA-gnostic VLVAE: Disentangled Alignment-Constrained Vision-Language Variational AutoEncoder for Robust Radiology Reporting with Missing Modalities" accepted for ORAL presentation at the 2026 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).

[Oct 2025]

• Student Nagur Shareef Shaik (Primary Adviser) received the Global Tech Innovation Award at the 2025 D3CODE Innovation Challenge.

[Sept 2025]

• Ph.D. student Badhan Mazumder received the NSF-EMBS-Google Young Professional NextGen Scholar Award at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).

[July 2025]

• Awarded a GSU Faculty International Research Engagement (FIRE) Mini Grant ($2,000) as PI for the project "A U.S.-Korea Joint Initiative to Develop Advanced Diagnostic Tools for ADHD."

[Mar 2025]

• Ph.D. student Badhan Mazumder awarded the GSU Foundation Dean's Graduate Research Grant.

• Ph.D. student Badhan Mazumder received the GSU Martin D. Fraser Graduate Student Conference Travel Award.

• Master's student Teja Cherukuri awarded the 2025 GSU Computer Science Graduate Research Award (Best Graduate Student).

• Recevied the Research Impact Award at the 2025 GSU Ignite Awards (as TRENDS Center PIs).

[Feb 2025]

• Paper titled "GCS-M3VLT: Guided Context Self-Attention based Multi-Modal Medical Vision Language Transformer for Retinal Image Captioning" accepted at the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025).

• Two papers accepted at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2025), including one Oral Presentation by student Badhan Mazumder.

[Oct 2024]

• Paper titled "Physics-Guided Multi-View Graph Neural Network for Schizophrenia Classification via Structural-Functional Coupling" received the Best Paper Award at the 2024 International Workshop on PRedictive Intelligence In MEdicine (PRIME-MICCAI).

• Student Nagur Shareef Shaik received the SPS Student Travel Award to present at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).

[Oct 2023]

• Student Badhan Mazumder received the NSF Student Travel Award to present at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI).

[Jul 2023]

• Awarded a GSU Brains & Behavior Seed Grant ($30,000) as PI for the project "Deep Learning to Predict Individual Outcome of mTBI."

[Jun 2023]

• Awarded a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Grant ($3.8M; Ye Allocation: $68,642) as Co-Investigator for the project "Novel Technologies to Mitigate Water Contamination for Resilient Infrastructure".

[Sep 2022]

• Awarded a major NIH R01 Grant ($1,539,080; Ye Allocation: $348,500) as MPI for the project "Deep learning enabled, deep ultraviolet scanning microscopy for intraoperative assessment of margin status during breast cancer surgery" (R01EB033806).