Bijaya Adhikari

Bijaya Adhikari received PhD and master's degree in computer science from Virginia Tech and bachelor's degree from Vistula University in Warsaw, Poland. He works at the intersection of epidemiology and AI/ML. He builds new algorithms and deep learning architectures incorporating epidemiological domain knowledge to solve real challenging problems. He has published at both top data mining and domain-specific venues (SIGKDD, ICDM, WWW, SDM, AAAI, AAMAS, PNAS, PLoS Computational Biology - his paper was selected by the editors to be featured on the PLOS Complexity channel as well). He has also won multiple awards from CS@VT (Pratt Fellowship), travel awards etc. He is also a member of the Computational Epidemiology group at University of Iowa.