Prakash Ishwar

Prakash Ishwar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University, with a secondary affiliation in the Department of Computer Science. His research focuses on Machine Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, Visual Information Processing & Analysis, Information Theory, and Network Science. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

His work spans interdisciplinary applications including healthcare analytics, media framing analysis, astrophysical modeling, and surveillance systems. Notable contributions include developing lesion-aware neural networks for aphasia recovery prediction, overhead fisheye camera systems for occupancy monitoring, and contrastive learning frameworks to address data imbalance challenges.

Dr. Ishwar has published extensively on topics such as privacy-preserving machine learning, domain generalization techniques, and multimodal data fusion. His research bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementations in healthcare, computer vision, and cybersecurity domains.