Pranav Kulkarni

I am a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Heng Huang. I am also a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC), where I bridge expertise in machine learning and computer vision with imaging informatics to transform everyday clinical practice and improve patient outcomes.

My research is focused on how AI can reason over multiphase and multimodal clinical evidence, and do so reliably enough to support real-world clinical decision-making. Currently, I am working on multimodal foundation models and medical image synthesis with CT imaging.

In my free time, I enjoy hiking, gardening, and reading about history, biogeography, and urban planning!