Nikhil Yadav, Ph.D.

Dr. Yadav is an Associate Professor in the Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science at St. John’s University. His primary areas of research are Data Mining, Learning Analytics, and Ambient Computing. He is actively exploring the enablement of deep learning applications on semantically annotated student assessment data to aid early intervention measures. He is also researching psychophysiological signal analysis using IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and AR (Augmented Reality) technology. He is working on projects that build novel machine learning architectural pipelines for cognition and psychological symptom detection in academic and clinical settings.

He has been the recipient of several outstanding faculty, research, and teaching awards during his time at St. John's University. Prior to joining St. John's University, Dr. Yadav worked in software engineering and consulting positions in industry. He co-founded a technology startup based on his research in speech biomarker analysis as a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame. He has published several articles in reputed peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and regularly serves on the program committee of international conferences.Data Mining, Speech Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Programming, Distributed Operating Systems, Software Design Methods.Machine Learning, AI, Pervasive Computing, Mobile Healthcare Systems and Applications, Scalable Web Services, Cloud Systems.

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