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Lab Director

Ananya Jana

Dr. Ananya Jana

Lab Director

Leads the CVAIR Lab with research interests in deep learning, biomedical image analysis, and explainable AI. Focused on developing clinical decision support systems using generative and multimodal AI.

Graduate Students

Anastasiia Sukhanova

Anastasiia Sukhanova

Graduate Student Creative Discovery & Research Awards Spring 2025
Graduate Researcher (Master's Thesis)

Working on explainable colorectal cancer segmentation using vision-language models like CLIP and LLaVA.

Daron Weekley

Daron Weekley

Graduate Researcher (Independent Study)

Research: Focusing on tooth segmentation and the impact of dental mesh resolution on tooth segmentation.

Satya Nimmagadda

Satya Nimmagadda

Graduate Researcher (Collaborator)

Research: Exploring generative models for synthetic data generation in biomedical imaging.

Undergraduate Students

Jace Duckworth

Jace Duckworth

Undergraduate Researcher

Research: Tooth landmark localization from 3D dental mesh.

Ganesh Paudel

Ganesh Paudel

Undergraduate Creative Discovery Scholar and Undergraduate Research Summer 2025 Scholar Award

Research: A Vision Transformer and Diffusion-Based Hybrid AI Framework for 3D Human Pose Estimation.

William Jackson Drummond

William Jackson Drummond

Undergraduate Creative Discovery Scholar and Undergraduate Research Fall 2025 Scholar Award

Research: Using Speech and Text to Recognize Swimming Distress Through Gestures.

Tanner Wick

Tanner Wick

NASA WV Undergraduate Fellow

Research: Deep learning-based human mesh recovery from 2D images guided by textual prompts.