Badri Adhikari

Associate Professor

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:

SP2025

In-person or online office hours: Wednesdays from 3pm to 4pm & 5:30pm to 6:45pm.

Please email in advance to avoid waiting. Appointments can also be also be scheduled via email. The Zoom link for online office hours is: https://umsystem.zoom.us/my/adhikarib

Publications

Personal Webpage

Research

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).