Pranav Kulkarni
6116 Executive Blvd, Suite 200
North Bethesda, MD 20852
pranavk [at] umd [dot] edu
Hi! I am a first-year CS PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Heng Huang. I am also a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC), where I bridge expertise in machine learning and computer vision with imaging informatics to revolutionize everyday clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.
My research is focused on enabling opportunistic screening for early-stage disease detection and accelerating clinical decision-making for life-threatening diseases. Currently, I am advancing this field through:
- Multimodal foundation models that integrate imaging, clinical, and multi-omics data for disease detection.
- Generative models that use diffusion- and Flow Matching-based methods for counterfactual generation, data augmentation, and accelerated series acquisition.
In my free time, I enjoy hiking, gardening, and reading about history, biogeography, and urban planning!
Recent News
| Feb 2026 | One paper accepted at CVPR’26 as highlight. |
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| Jan 2026 | One paper accepted at IEEE ISBI’26. |
| Sep 2025 | Elected as the grad student representative for the CS Education Committee. |
| Jul 2025 | Started my PhD at University of Maryland under Heng Huang. |
| Jul 2025 | One paper accepted at ICCV CVAMD’25. |
| May 2025 | A review article that I co-authored has been published in Radiology. |
| Apr 2025 | Received UM-IHC Travel Award to support my travel for MIDL’25. |
| Mar 2025 | Two papers accepted at MIDL’25. |
| Mar 2025 | A book chapter that I co-authored for the MICCAI Society’s Book on Federated learning for Medical Imaging has been published. |
| Mar 2025 | One tiny paper accepted at ICLR’25 Workshop on Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment. |
