Ph.D. dissertation defense

I would be delighted to have friends, family and well-wishers join me for this occasion, in person or virtually, whichever suits you. Your presence and good wishes would mean a lot to me as I take on this academic milestone.

Date: Monday, November 16, 2026
Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST
Status: Scheduled

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Dissertation

Advisor: Dr. Dong Hye Ye. Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University.

From Perception to Clinical Reasoning: Disentangled, Evidence-Grounded Multimodal Learning for Robust Medical Image Analysis and Reporting

Reading a medical image involves five judgments: locating a finding, grading it, weighing it against clinical context, comparing it with earlier studies, and committing to a claim. This dissertation builds methods for each stage on two ideas: every stage carries a distribution rather than a point estimate, and evidence from different sources is represented separately so that losing one source does not corrupt the others. It is evaluated across endoscopy, whole-slide histology, retinal photography, brain MRI with genomics, and chest radiography.

The full dissertation will be available here after the defense.

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