Kayhan Batmanghelich, PhD

  • Assistant Professor

Kayhan Batmanghelich is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Intelligent Systems Program with secondary appointments in the Computer Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh and an adjunct faculty in the Machine Learning Department at the Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) under the supervision of Prof. Ben Taskar and Prof. Christos Davatzikos. He spent three years as a postdoc in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, working with Prof. Polina Golland. His research is at the intersection of medical vision, machine learning, and bioinformatics. His group develops machine learning methods that address interesting challenges of AI in medicine, such as explainability, learning with limited and weak data, and integration of medical image data with other biomedical data modalities.  His research is supported by awards NIH and NSF, as well as industry-sponsored projects.

Education & Training

  • BSc Amirkabir University of Technology
  • MSc University of Tehran
  • PhD University of Pennsylvania