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Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2017
B.E. in Computer Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2009

Email: adhikarib@umsl.edu

Office: 312 ESH

Phone: (314) 516-7393

Fax: (314) 516-5400

Office Hours:                           
T 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM via Zoom 
R 4:00 PM - 3:00 PM in person 
W 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM via Zoom 
W 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM in person 
 
Appointments can be also be scheduled via email. 

 Zoom Link:

https://umsystem.zoom.us/my/adhikarib


Publications

Personal Webpage

Main Research Interests

  • Deep learning
  • Interpretable deep learning
  • Health informatics


Selected Research Involvements

  • Interpretable machine learning methods for deep learning applications in the areas of health informatics.
  • Development of process-aware educational tools to enhance the learning of writing and computer programming.
  • Deep learning-based tools and methods for solving various problems in bioinformatics (supported by NSF, NIH, NVIDIA, and Google).

External Grants/Contracts
  • $163,535, National Science Foundation CISE CRII, 2020 (PI).


UM/UMSL Grants/Contracts

  • $6,450, UMSL Research Award, 2019 (PI).
  • $5,415, UMSL Research Award, 2018 (PI).


Select publications

  • Adhikari, Badri. Thinking Beyond Chatbots’ Threat to Education: Visualizations to Elucidate the Writing or Coding Process. Education Sciences 13(9), 922 (2023).
  • Adhikari, Badri. A fully open-source framework for deep learning protein real-valued distances. Nature Scientific Reports 10, 2045–2322 (2020).
  • Adhikari, Badri. DEEPCON: protein contact prediction using dilated convolutional neural networks with dropout. Bioinformatics 36, 470–477 (2020).