Assistant Professor

Subash
Neupane

CS & Data Science · Meharry Medical College

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Data Science at Meharry Medical College, Nashville. My research lies at the intersection of Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and Healthcare — building intelligent systems that improve clinical decision support, patient communication, and cybersecurity.

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Subash Neupane
29 Publications
736 Citations
11 h-Index
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News

Mar 2026

1 Paper "From Protocol to Practice: Graded Sepsis Bundle Compliance and Actionable Insights from Real-World ICU Data" accepted at IEEE ICHI (cNLP4QoL) 2026.

Mar 2026

1 Paper "Fault-Tolerant Preference Alignment via Multi-Agent Verification" accepted at ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI.

Mar 2026

1 Paper "ACE-TA: An Agentic Teaching Assistant for Grounded Q&A, Quiz Generation, and Code Tutoring" accepted at FLAIRS 2026.

Dec 2025

1 Paper "MedInsight" accepted at ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.

Jul 2025

Joined Meharry Medical College as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer & Data Sciences.

May 2025

Paper "TwinExplainer" accepted at IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) 2025.

Mar 2025

1 Abstract "Intelligent Clinical Assistant" accepted at AAAI 2025 (Best Poster Award).

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Publications

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Teaching

Spring
CS 5310 · Meharry Medical College

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

An introduction to AI and machine learning techniques applied to clinical problems, including NLP for clinical notes, predictive modeling, and ethical considerations in healthcare AI.

Goal → Students will design and evaluate a prototype AI tool that addresses a real-world clinical workflow challenge.
Graduate 3 Credits
Summer
CS 4250 · Meharry Medical College

Natural Language Processing

Theory and practice of NLP including text classification, named entity recognition, transformer models, and applications in information retrieval and clinical text mining.

Goal → Students will build an end-to-end NLP pipeline that processes unstructured clinical text into structured, actionable outputs.
Graduate 3 Credits
Fall
CS 5420 · Meharry Medical College

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

Covers foundational principles of cybersecurity including intrusion detection, adversarial ML, network security, and emerging GenAI-enabled defense strategies.

Goal → Students will analyze a real-world cyber incident, design a detection pipeline, and present a post-mortem report with mitigation strategies.
Undergraduate / Graduate 3 Credits

* Updated on March 18, 2026

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Background

2025–
Present

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Dept. of Computer Science & Data Science
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN

2021–2025

Ph.D., Computer Science

Mississippi State University
Advisor: Prof. Shahram Rahimi
Thesis: "Augmenting Healthcare Communication: Context-Aware AI Frameworks for Clinical Decision Support and Automated Summarization"

Prior

M.Sc., Information Systems & Security

Graduate studies in information security and systems

Prior

M.Sc., Information Technology

Graduate studies in information technology

Research Expertise

Generative AI Large Language Models NLP Healthcare AI Cybersecurity Explainable AI Information Retrieval Knowledge Graphs Digital Twins Python PyTorch

Service & Community

AAAI Contributor IEEE Access Author Frontiers AI Author OpenReview Reviewer ACM Member IEEE Member
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Contact

Open to research collaborations, speaking invitations, and prospective graduate students interested in AI, Healthcare, and Cybersecurity.

Email subash.neupane@mmc.edu
College Meharry Medical College
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd
Nashville, TN 37208
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Office Location

Meharry Medical College
School of Applied Computational Sciences
Department of Computer Science & Data Science
3401 West End Ave, Suite 260, Office 7
Nashville, TN 37203