Bishal LamichhaneView profile
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Bishal Lamichhane is an Assistant Research Professor at Rice University's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, affiliated with the Digital Health Lab. He focuses on bio-behavioral machine learning solutions for mental health diagnosis and monitoring, leveraging speech, wearables, mobile sensing, and imaging. With industrial experience at Philips Research and Samsung, he holds a PhD from Rice, MS from TU/e (cum laude), and BTech from SVNIT. Education: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University MS in Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing), TU/e B.Tech in Electronics and Communication, SVNIT Research Interests: Bio-behavioral modeling, wearables, mental health applications, and machine learning. His work bridges clinical and industrial innovations, addressing challenges like psychotic relapse prediction and depression severity assessment using multimodal data. Articles Trends: Recent work emphasizes AI-driven mental health tools, including impulsivity modeling, depression monitoring via mobile sensing, and leveraging ChatGPT for diagnostics. He explores both clinical and cybersecurity applications, such as wireless network analysis. Awards: Includes Rice Future Faculty Fellow, ICC Best Paper Award, and multiple academic scholarships. Grants & Roles: Secured NSF ERC seed funds, serves as adjunct professor at Baylor College of Medicine, and guest editor for PLOS Digital Health. He leads the 'Machine Learning Algorithms for Schizophrenia Detection' research topic. Labs: Digital Health Lab (Rice), Scalable Health Labs, and collaborations with Harris Health/Baylor College of Medicine.











