surya.prasath@cchmc.org, prasatsa@uc.edu, surya.iit@gmail.com
Surya is the PI of the Cincy AI lab, but the students below are the ones who really do all the works. Outside of the lab, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading books… and creating new awesome (at least he thinks they are awesome, we know otherwise) concoctions by mixing various brewed coffee with whatever lying around...
PhD Student, ABD, BMI, CCHMC
MS: Creighton University (2023)
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Awards: Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2026-27), 3MT Finalist, UC GSG Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship (2025)
Keywords: foundation models, LLMs, NLP, agentic AI, multimodal fusion, drug-drug interactions, drug toxicity, histopathology, spatial transcriptomics
Tejasri Edara
MS Student, CS, UC
BTech: KLEF, India (2024)
Computer Science & Engineering
Awards: Student Peer Mentor (2021, 2022, 2023)
Keywords: biomedical image processing, microscopy imaging, deep learning, AI
Ashish Chowdary Prattipati
MS Student, CS, UC
MTech - Dual Degree: IIT Kharagpur, India (2023)
Aerospace Engineering
Awards: All India Rank 2330 in JEE Mains 2018 (out of 1.2 million students), All India Rank 4002 in JEE Advanced 2018
Keywords: video processing, deep learning, AI, computer vision
MS Student, CS, UC
BSc: NEC, Nepal
Computer Engineering
Awards: LFX Mentee | The Linux Foundation
Keywords: deep learning, LLMs, NLP, agentic AI
Student Enrichment Opportunities
Mohamed Belghaouti
PhD Student, CS, UC
MS: Strayer University
Computer Information Systems
Awards: Presidential Staff Excellence Award Nomination (2019), SDSU
Keywords: agentic AI, LLMs, multiagentic systems, medical imaging, histopathology
Shivam Kharangate
UPRISE Intern
BS Student, CS, UC
BS: University of Cincinnati
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences
Keywords: histopathology, AI
Caleb Woldemedhine
Intern
BS: University of Denver (2027)
Computer Science
Awards: President, National Society of Black Engineers (2025-)
Keywords: histopathology, agentic AI, LLMs, multimodal AI
Ahmed Mohammedalhassan
Intern
MBBS/MD: University Gezira (2023)
Medicine & Surgery
Awards: ECFMG Certification (2025), OET Gold Badge
Keywords: radiology, clinical AI, agentic AI, LLMs, multiagentic systems
Current Trainees
PhD Students
Pankaj Rajdeo (4th year PhD, BMI, CCHMC)
Mohamed Belghaouti (2nd year PhD, CS, UC)
MS Students
Tejasri Edara (MS, CS, UC)
Ashish Chowdary Prattipati (MS, CS, UC)
Rupesh Gelal (MS, CS, UC) - Jointly with Bruce Aronow
Visiting/Remote Internship/Undergraduate/Graduate/High School/Student Enrichment Opportunities
Caleb Woldemedhine (BS, University of Denver)
Ahmed Mohammedalhassan (MBBS/MD, University of Gezira)
MS in EE, Mie University, Japan (Jointly with Hiroharu Kawanaka and Bruce Aronow Labs)
Kodera Keiji, Feroza Naznin Lia
Dr. Smruti Deoghare (PhD, BMI, CCHMC) - 2019 - 2025
Dr. Balaji Iyer (PhD, CS, UC) - 2020 - 2025 (→ Post Doctoral Fellow, UC, USA)
Dr. Shyam Sundar Debsarkar (PhD, CS, UC)
Aniruddha Shekara (MSTP, UC - Jointly with Judith Dexheimer) - 2021 - (→ MD/PhD, UC CoM)
Xiaoxuan (Ruby) Liu (MS, EECS, UC) - 2020 - 2022 - (→ PhD student, Jasbir Dhaliwal, BMI, CCHMC)
Ravi Yadav (MS, EECS, UC) - Research Fellow - 2019-2020 (→ Industry Position)
Harshith Bondada (MS, EECS, UC) - 2018 - 2019 (→ PhD student, UC CS)
Srinivasa Siddhartha Selagamsetty (MS, EECS, UC) - 2018 - 2019 (→ PhD student, UC CS)
Samuel W. Hacker (SURF Program, BMI, Undergraduate, University of Kentucky) - Summer 2019
Phuc Ngoc Thien Ngyuen (Intern - 2021-2024, Undergraduate, CS, UC)
Aniketh Reddy Chinnachinnanagari (MS - 2024-2025, CS, UC)
Sai Sree Vardhan Ponnuru (MS - 2024-2026, CS, UC)
Sumanjali Peddanna (MS - 2024-2026, CS, UC)
Rotation Students Alumni
Guangyuan (Frank) Li (PhD student, BMI - Nathan Salomonis Lab - Summer 2020) - Assistant Professor of Practice, University of Notre Dame, USA
Faiz Rizvi (PhD student, Immunology - Emily Miraldi Lab - Summer 2019), Caris Life Sciences, USA
Dez Yalom (Research Fellow, BMI - Bruce Aronow Lab - Summer 2019)
Visiting/Remote Internship Students/Alumni
Seddik Boudissa, Satoshi Shirae (Excellent Student Award, IEEE Ngoya Section, Japan), Ginga Sumi, Riku Nakagaki, Daiki Katsuma, Shunsuke Okubo, Daisuke Saito, Shu Isaka, Tomohiro Hayakawa, Kiichi Fukuma, Asami Yonekura (MS in EE, Mie University, Japan, jointly with Hiroharu Kawanaka - Information Processing Lab)
Amogh Shukla, Gautam Chettiar, Srishti Lodha (Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA), Atharva Gundawar (Graduate Student, Arizona State University, AZ, USA), Nitin Lodha, Rushikesh Deotale (Graduate student, Northeastern University, MA, USA), Shreyash Rawat (Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA), Harsh Panday, Venkat Mukthineni (Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA), Rahul Mukthineni (Graduate student, The Ohio State University, OH, USA), A Pranav, Divya Sharma, Montek Singh, Utkarsh Bajpai, Shiv Bidani (BTech, VIT University, India, jointly with V. Vijayarajan - School of Computer Science and Engineering). Shreyash Singh, Harshit Jadli (BTech, VIT University, India, jointly with R. Padma Priya - School of Computer Science and Engineering). Alwin Joseph, Meenakshi, Sr. Preema (BTech/PhD, Christ University, India, Jointly with Chandra J). Vatsal Dagli, Ridhdhesh Patel (BTech, Nirma University, jointly with Ruchi Gajjar via UC-International Strategic Partnerships).
Vasundhara Acharya (Intern, EECS) - 2021 - Currently PhD student, RPI, Troy NY
Anugunj Naman (Intern - 2021-2022, CS, IIIT Guwahati)
Aakash Agrawal (Industry Intern - 2022)
Ravi Bandaru (High School Student - 2021, William Mason High School)
Harshitha Voleti (Intern - 2022-2023, Undergraduate, JNTU, India) - Graduate Student, Concordia University, Canada
Viji Nambiar (Intern - 2021-2022, MS, Christ University, India) - Currently Accenture, India
Prashant Ghimire (Industry Intern - 2021-2022)
Ramanathan A (Intern - 2022-2025, MTech, MSRUAS, India)
Hazique Aetesam (Research Associate - 2022-2025, PhD, IIT Patna, India) - Currently Assistant Professor, BIT, Mesra, India
Indrajit Chaudhuri (Intern - 2023-2024, Undergraduate, IIT KGP, India)
Abhinav Narayan (MS - 2024-2025, IIT, USA)
Neelakshi Chatterjee (2022-2025, PhD student, Biostatistics, UC)
Mugdha Ratnakar Kukudkar (Intern - 2024-2025, VIT, India)
Ketan (MS - 2024-2025, Physics, IISER, India)
Gokul Reghunath (Intern - 2024-2025, Undergraduate, CS, UC)
Siva Kunapuli (Intern - 2024-2025, Undergraduate, Computer Engineering, UC)
Isabella Wynter Mitchell (BS - Central State University, OH, USA)
Abel Tesfaye (BS - Summer 2024, Univ Wisconsin) - BRIMS student
Vatsal Nanda (Intern - 2020-2024, Undergraduate, Thapar Institute, India)
Aditya Wayal (Intern - 2023-2024, Undergraduate, VIIT, India)
Indarjit Chaudhuri (Intern - 2023-2024, Undergraduate, IIT KGP, India)
Aniket Dwivedi (Intern - 2024, Undergraduate, IIT M, India)
Mohsin Imam (Intern - 2023-2024, Undergraduate, Univ Delhi, India)
Krish Ranjan (High School Student - 2021-2024, Indian Hill High School)
Arushi Gupta (High School Student - 2023-2024, William Mason High School)
Vishal Aravind (High School Student - 2024, William Mason High School)
Srikar Koduru (High School Student - 2023-2024, William Mason High School)
Ria Poluru (High School Student - 2024-2025, Dougherty Valley High School) - Currently at New York University (NYU), NY, USA
Sahana Srikanth (High School Student - 2024-2025, William Mason High School)
Akshat Chaturvedi (Intern - 2025-2026, Undergraduate, CS, UC)
Prachi Chheta (Intern - 2025-2026, MEng, BME, UC)
Chiran Arumugam (Intern - 2025-2026, BS, CS, UCSB)
Manaal Tariq (Intern, - 2025-2026, Undergraduate, Med Sci, UCL, UK)
Vibhun Naredla (High School Student - 2025-2026, Briar Woods High School, VA)
Other Lab Students/Postdocs/Fellows previously worked and currently working with the Prasath Lab on ML/DL/AI applications
Alejandra M Casar Berazaluce (Fellow, Surgical Services - Todd Ponsky Lab) - Currently Resident at UT Health San Antonio General Surgery, TX, USA
Aishwarya Kulkarni (MS/PhD student, BMI - Nathan Salomonis Lab) - Currently Bioinformatics Analyst at BreakSight Inc. Previously - Statistical Programmer, STATKING Clinical Services, OH, USA
Manan Shah (Fellow, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine - Kevin Dufendach Lab) - Currently Instructor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers, NY, USA
Nicholas Szugye (Fellow, Cardiology, Heart Institute - Ryan Moore Lab) - Currently Cleveland Clinic
Lei Liu (PhD student, BMI - Yizhao Ni Lab) - Currently Postdoc, China
Pieter-Jan van Camp (PhD student, Thesis, BMI - Alexey Porallo Lab) - Currently Postdoc, Harvard
Tareian Cazares (PhD student, Immunology - Emily Miraldi Lab) - Currently at Eli Lilly
Guangyuan (Frank) Li (PhD student, BMI - Nathan Salomonis Lab) - Currently Postdoc, New York University
Kang Jin (PhD student, BMI - Bruce Aronow Lab) - Currently Postdoc, Harvard
Elmira Ghahramani Zarajabad (PhD student, Thesis, BME - Douglas Mast Lab) - Currently Postdoc, Weill Cornell
Kairavee Thakkar (PhD student, BMI - Nathan Salomonis Lab)
Faiz Rizvi (PhD students, Systems Biology and Physiology, Immunology - Emily Miraldi Lab)
James Reigle (Postdoc, Gastroenterology - Jasbir Dhaliwal Lab)
Sixten Heekin (Analyst-Bioinformatics - Jasbir Dhaliwal Lab)
Nicholas Denson (Analyst-Bioinformatics - Jasbir Dhaliwal Lab)
Xiaoxuan (Ruby) Liu (PhD student, Jasbir Dhaliwal Lab)
We are always looking for motivated students to join us. If you are interested in joining our lab please contact us!
Visiting Researchers/Professors Hosted at the Prasath Lab
Prof. Hiroharu Kawanaka, Mie University, Japan - 2019, 2023, 2024
Prof. Anitha Hoblidar, Manipal Institute of Technology, India - Summer 2025 - ICMR Fellowship
Prof. Ruchi Gajjar, Nirma University, India - Summer 2026 - University of Cincinnati International Visiting Scholar Fellowship
International Visiting/Remote Internship Students - Hiroharu Kawanaka Group @ Mie University, Japan
Daiki Katsuma, Shunsuke Saito
Shu Isaka
Asami Yonekura, Hiroharu Kawanaka
Kiichi Fukuma
Ginga Sumi
Keiji Kodera
Riku Nakagaki
Satoshi Shirae
Seddik Boudissa