Prashnna K Gyawali
Contact
prashnna.gyawali@mail.wvu.eduAERB (Room: 352)
           
Hi there!
I am an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University in the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Before my time at WVU, I completed my postdoctoral training at the Stanford University and earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from RIT.
My research focuses on building reliable and trustworthy AI systems with improved generalization and robustness, particularly in critical domains such as healthcare. I emphasize generalization (through self-supervised learning and foundation models), reliability (via out-of-distribution detection), and trustworthiness (through interpretability) as key pillars of my work.
NOTE: I am looking for motivated graduate students broadly interested in robust and explainable machine learning and its applications to health care. If you are excited about this line of research and would like to work with me, please read this before contacting me.
News
- September 2026: New 3 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026.
- September 2026: New 1 paper accepted at npj Digital Medicine.
- September 2026: Successfully organized the 4th DEMI Workshop at MICCAI 2026, Strasbourg, France.
- May 2026: 1 paper accepted at ECCV 2026.
- May 2026: 2 papers accepted at MICCAI 2026 (1 main track and 1 Open Data track).
- May 2026: 1 paper accepted at MIUA 2026.
- April 2026: 1 paper accepted at ICML 2026.
- February 2026: 1 paper accepted at CVPR 2026 (Findings).
- January 2026: Selected to serve as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2026.
- December 2025: 1 review paper published in the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
- October 2025: 1 paper accepted at Nature Communications Materials.
- September 2025: Secured 2nd place in the Multi-Camera Robust Diagnosis of Fundus Diseases Challenge at MICCAI 2025.
- September 2025: Successfully organized the 3rd DEMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea.
- June 2025: 1 paper accepted at IEEE IJCB 2025.
- May 2025: 1 paper accepted at MICCAI 2025.
- May 2025: 2 papers accepted at MIUA 2025.
- March 2025: 1 paper accepted at Scientific Reports.
- October 2024: Presented 2 main conference papers at MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.
- September 2024: Successfully organized the 2nd DEMI Workshop at MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco.
- September 2024: 1 paper accepted at Frontiers in Materials.
- January 2024: Selected to serve as an Area Chair for MICCAI 2024.
- August 2023: Established the Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL@WVU).
- June 2023: Joined West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor.
- May 2021: Joined Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Scholar, working with Zihuai He and James Zou.
- May 2021: Completed PhD at Rochester Institute of Technology, advised by Linwei Wang.
Research
See Google Scholar Page for the complete lists, including recent preprints. * below indicates equal contribution
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FedVG: Gradient-Guided Aggregation for Enhanced Federated Learning.
Alina Devkota, Jacob Thrasher, Donald Adjeroh, Binod Bhattarai, Prashnna K Gyawali.
CVPR Findings, 2026.
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Supervised Pretraining for Material Property Prediction.
Chowdhury Mohammad Abid Rahman, Aldo H Romero, Prashnna K Gyawali.
Nature Communications Materials, 2025.
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NERO: Explainable Out-of-Distribution Detection with Neuron-level Relevance.
Anju Chhetri, Jari Korhonen, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai.
MICCAI, 2025.
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CURE: Centroid-guided Unsupervised Representation Erasure for Facial Recognition Systems.
Shivam, Nima Najafzadeh, Yenumula Reddy, Prashnna Gyawali.
IEEE IJCB, 2025.
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AutoTA: A Dynamic Intent-Based Virtual Teaching Assistant for Students Using Open Source LLMs.
Rajashree Dahal, Greg Murray, Robin Chataut, Mohamed Hefeida, Anurag Srivastava, Prashnna Gyawali.
IEEE Access, 2025.
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AI analysis for ejection fraction estimation from 12-lead ECG.
Alina Devkota, Rukesh Prajapati, Amr El-Wakeel, Donald Adjeroh, Brijesh Patel, Prashnna Gyawali.
Scientific Reports, 2025.
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TE-SSL: Time and Event-aware Self Supervised Learning for Alzheimer's Disease Progression Analysis.
Jacob Thrasher, Alina Devkota, Ahmed Tafti, Binod Bhattarai, Prashnna Gyawali.
International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
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CAR-MFL: Cross-Modal Augmentation by Retrieval for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Modalities.
Pranav Poudel, Prashant Shrestha, Sanskar Amgain, Yash Raj Shrestha, Prashnna Gyawali, Binod Bhattarai.
International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024.
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Enhancing material property prediction with ensemble deep graph convolutional networks.
Chowdhury Mohammad Abid Rahman, Ghadendra Bhandari, Nasser M Nasrabadi, Aldo Humberto Romero, Prashnna Gyawali.
Frontiers in Materials (Computational Materials Science), 2024.
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A deep-learning algorithm to classify skin lesions from mpox virus infection.
Alexander H Thieme, Yuanning Zheng, Gautam Machiraju, Chris Sadee, Mirja Mittermaier, Maximilian Gertler, Jorge L Salinas, Krithika Srinivasan, Prashnna K Gyawali, Francisco Carrillo-Perez, Angelo Capodici, Maximilian Uhlig, Daniel Habenicht, Anastassia Löser, Maja Kohler, Maximilian Schuessler, David Kaul, Johannes Gollrad, Jackie Ma, Christoph Lippert, Kendall Billick, Isaac Bogoch, Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Pascal Geldsetzer, Olivier Gevaert.
Nature Medicine, 2023.
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Continual Unsupervised Disentangling of Self-Organizing Representations.
Zhiyuan Li, Xiajun Jiang, Ryan Missel, Prashnna K Gyawali, Nilesh Kumar, Linwei Wang.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023.
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GhostKnockoff inference empowers identification of putative causal variants in genome-wide association studies.
Zihuai He, Linxi Liu, Michael E Belloy, Yann Le Guen, Aaron Sossin, Xiaoxia Liu, Xinran Qi, Shiyang Ma, Prashnna K Gyawali, Tony Wyss-Coray, Hua Tang, Chiara Sabatti, Emmanuel Candès, Michael D Greicius, Iuliana Ionita-Laza.
Nature Communications, 2022.
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Ensembling improves stability and power of feature selection for deep learning models.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Xiaoxia Liu, James Zou, Zihuai He.
Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB), 2022.
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Vela pulsar: single pulses analysis with machine learning techniques.
Carlos O Lousto, Ryan Missel, Harshkumar Prajapati, Valentina Sosa Fiscella, Federico G López Armengol, Prashnna K Gyawali, Linwei Wang, Nathan D Cahill, Luciano Combi, Santiago del Palacio, Jorge A Combi, Guillermo Gancio, Federico García, Eduardo M Gutiérrez and Fernando Hauscarriaga.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022.
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Latent-optimization based Disease-aware Image Editing for Medical Image Augmentation.
Aakash Saboo, Prashnna K Gyawali, Ankit Shukla, Neeraj Jain, Manoj Sharma and Linwei Wang.
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2021.
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Learning to Disentangle Inter-subject Anatomical Variations in Electrocardiographic Data.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Jaideep Vitthal Murkute, Maryam Toloubidokhti, Xiajun Jiang, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp and Linwei Wang.
IEEE Transacations on Biomedical Engineering (TBE), 2021.
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Enhancing Mixup-based Semi-Supervised Learning with Explicit Lipschitz Regularization.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2020.
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Semi-supervised Medical Image Classification with Global Latent Mixing.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Sandesh Ghimire, Pradeep Bajracharya, Zhiyuan Li, Linwei Wang.
International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2020.
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Progressive Learning and Disentanglement of Hierarchical Representations.
Zhiyuan Li, Jaideep Vitthal Murkute, Prashnna K Gyawali, Linwei Wang.
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020.
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Sequential Factorized Autoencoder for Localizing the Origin of Ventricular Activation From 12-Lead Electrocardiograms.
Prashnna K. Gyawali, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp, Linwei Wang.
IEEE Transacations on Biomedical Engineering (TBE), 2019.
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Improving Disentangled Representation Learning with the Beta Bernoulli Process.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Zhiyuan Li, Cameron Knight, Sandesh Ghimire, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp, Linwei Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2019.
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Semi-Supervised Learning by Disentangling and Self-Ensembling over Stochastic Latent Space.
Prashnna K Gyawali*, Zhiyuan Li*, Sandesh Ghimire, Linwei Wang.
International Conference on Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2019.
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Automatic Coordinate Prediction of the Exit of Ventricular Tachycardia from 12-lead Electrocardiogram.
Prashnna K Gyawali, Shuhang Chen, Huafeng Liu, B. Milan Horacek, John Sapp, Wang L.
Computing in Cardiology (CinC), 2017. (Semifinalist for Young Investigator Award)
Advising
PhD students:
- Chowdhury Mohammad Abid Rahman
- Jacob Thrasher
- Alina Devkota
- Greg Murray
- Shivam (co-advising with Prof. Yemunala Reddy)
- Rizwan Ahamed
- Ahsan Habib Akash
MS students:
- Ghasideh Mirzaee
- Israel Odugboye
Teaching
AI 720 Generative AI
Instructor
West Virginia University, Spring 2025.CPE620 Deep Learning
Instructor
West Virginia University, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
EE565 Advanced Image Processing
Instructor
West Virginia University, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
EE465 Digital Image Processing
Instructor
West Virginia University, Spring 2024.
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
Instructor
Institute of Engineering, Tribhuwan University, 2015.