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Avinash Yaganapu

Avinash Yaganapu

Machine learning researcher focused on weakly supervised learning and bioinformatics

Las Vegas, Nevada
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Joined July 2026

Summary

Focus on interpretable weakly supervised learning: Avinash's doctoral work and publications center on designing interpretable weakly supervised frameworks (e.g., Multi-SA) that improve localization and explainability in tasks ranging from semantic segmentation to cellular imaging. unlv+1
Bridges machine learning and bioinformatics: He develops methods (such as BIN-PU) to address biological problems—particularly compound–protein interaction prediction for bacterial enzymes—using positive-only and weakly labeled data and provides open-source implementations. github+2
Active UNLV researcher and lab contributor: Avinash completed MSc and PhD degrees at UNLV, served as graduate TA/RA, defended his dissertation in 2025, and is affiliated with the DataX Lab and Park/Kang research group at UNLV. unlv+2
Published collaborator across domains: He coauthors peer-reviewed papers in computer vision, bioinformatics, and aging-related AI research and maintains public profiles and code repositories (ORCID, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, GitHub) documenting his contributions. google+2

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Prediction of bacterial protein–compound interactions with only positive samples

January 1, 2026

Paper (preprint and later journal publication) introducing BIN-PU, a PU learning framework to predict bacterial compound–protein interactions using only known positive samples; includes experimental validation and publicly available code.

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Interpretable Weakly Supervised Learning with Incomplete Data

January 1, 2025

PhD dissertation proposing interpretable weakly supervised learning frameworks (Multi-SA for semantic segmentation, BIN-PU for PU learning in CPI prediction, BICAN-HT for cellular senescence) and a review of AI in cellular senescence research.

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Artificial intelligence in cellular senescence research: a narrative review

January 1, 2025

A narrative review summarizing AI applications in cellular senescence research and discussing computational advancements, challenges, and future opportunities.

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Multi-layered Self-attention Mechanism for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

January 1, 2024

Journal article presenting a Multi-SA approach that leverages intermediate feature representations and multi-layered self-attention to improve Class Activation Maps for weakly supervised semantic segmentation (published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding).

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Detection of SNPS Associated with Bone Loss Rate by Using Machine Learning Approaches

January 1, 2020

Master's thesis exploring GWAS data and machine learning models (ridge regression, SVM, random forest, MLP) to identify SNPs associated with bone loss rate.

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