Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhD

Kayhan Batmanghelich is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, a Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute, and an AIR Affiliate. Previously he was assistant professor at the department of biomedical informatics with a secondary appointment at the school of computing and information at the University of Pittsburgh.

Batmanghelich’s research is at the intersection of medical vision (medical image analysis), machine learning, and bioinformatics. Batmanghelich develops algorithms to analyze and understand medical images, genetic data, and other electrical health records, such as clinical reports. The main themes of research in Batmanghelich’s lab are about the main challenges of AI in healthcare: (1) Explainability, (2) Data Efficiency, (3) Multimodal Data Fusion, and Causality. Batmanghelich’s lab works on Alzheimer’s, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) projects.