Publications

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Papers

• Automated Temporal Localization of Behavior in Cichlid Fish with Few-Shot Trajectory Tokens.
  Bhargav Srinivasan*, William Lamousin*, Jason Liu†, Charles Phan†, Ofure Osunbor, Shubh Sharma, Cade McGeehan, Tahir Haroon, Vijay Jayasuriya, Coltan Parker, Scott Juntti, Pulkit Kumar, Abhinav Shrivastava.
  WACV 2027. Workshop version: Computer Vision for Ecology Workshop, ECCV 2026. *, † Equal contribution.
  Paper (PDF) · Supplement (PDF) · Project page · Workshop paper (PDF)
• CRANE: Correcting Errors in Raw Nanopore Signals Using Hidden Markov Models.
  Simon Ambrozak, Ulysse McConnell, Bhargav Srinivasan, Burak Ozkan, Ernest Zhang, Can Firtina.
  In review, Bioinformatics, 2026.
  Paper (arXiv)
• Artificial Intelligence and Pain Management: Cautiously Optimistic.
  Bhargav Srinivasan, Archana Venkataraman, Srinivasa N. Raja.
  Editorial, Pain Management, September 2024.
  Paper
• RawMod: Modification-Agnostic Detection of DNA Base Modifications from Nanopore Signal Pileups.
  Bhargav Srinivasan, Sabeena Nazar, Vir Gandhi, Ernest Zhang, Tsvetan Bachvaroff, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Allen Place, Can Firtina.
  Preprint, bioRxiv, November 2026.
  Preprint (bioRxiv) · Project page
• When Should a Pathogen Strike? Navigating the Landscape of Birth Pulses and Mating Season.
  Bhargav Srinivasan, Emily Bruns, Sam Hulse.
  Preprint, bioRxiv, October 2026.
  Preprint (bioRxiv)

Talks

• Modification Agnostic Classification in Nanopore Sequencing.
  Invited talk, BASLab, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), Baltimore, MD. September 2026.
• A Deep Learning Approach to Identifying Complex Structural Variation in the Genome.
  Invited seminar talk, Cancer Data Science Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD. July 2026.
  Talk slides (PDF)
• Unsupervised Learning for DNA Modification Profiles from Nanopore Sequencing Data.
  Invited talk, Algorithmic Bioinformatics Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. April 2026.
  Talk page
• Investigating Color Vision's Role in African Cichlid Social Behaviors Using Few-Shot Action Recognition.
  Invited talk, Gemstone Do Good Showcase, College Park, MD. November 2025.
• Developing a Molecular Surveillance Dashboard.
  Department seminar talk, Early Vaccines & Immune Therapies, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD. August 2025.
• Host Life History vs. Pathogen Optimization.
  Invited talk, Quantitative Ecological & Evolutionary Dynamics Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. April 2025. Only undergraduate speaker in the seminar's history.
• Investigating the Link between the Ora4 Gene and Social Behaviors in African Cichlids through the Use of Computer Vision.
  Invited talk, University of Maryland Gemstone Library Awards, College Park, MD. April 2025. Best Talk Award.

Posters

• When Should a Pathogen Strike: Navigating the Landscape of Birth Pulses and Mating Season.
  ICMA-X: Tenth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling & Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems, College Park, MD. October 2026.
  Poster (PDF)
• RawMod: A Deep Learning Approach to Modification Agnostic Classification in Nanopore Sequencing.
  Poster presentation and flash talk, AnVIL Community Conference, Boston, MA. September 2026.
  Poster (PDF)
• RawMod: A Deep Learning Approach to Modification Agnostic Classification in Nanopore Sequencing.
  ISMB: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Washington, D.C. July 2026. HiTSeq Best Poster Award.
  Poster (PDF)
• A Deep Learning Approach to Identifying Complex Structural Variation in the Genome.
  Poster presentation and flash talk, NCI Summer School on Algorithmic Cancer Biology, Bethesda, MD. July 2026.
  Poster (PDF)
• A Machine Learning Approach to Identify Unique Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) Clusters Using Lipooligosaccharide (LOS) Biosynthetic Genes.
  ASM Microbe 2026, Washington, D.C. June 2026.
• Correlations between Read Depth, Copy Number Variation, and Bt Resistance in Helicoverpa zea.
  Entomological Society of Washington Student Showcase, Washington, D.C. May 2026. Best Poster Award.
  Poster (PDF)
• Correlations between Read Depth, Copy Number Variation, and Bt Resistance in Helicoverpa zea.
  PAG33, San Diego, CA. January 2026. 2nd Prize, Crop Science Society of America Poster Competition.
  Poster (PDF)
• When Should a Pathogen Strike: Navigating the Landscape of Birth Pulses and Mating Season.
  Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases North-East Meeting, University Park, PA. November 2025.
  Poster (PDF)
• Developing a Molecular Surveillance Dashboard.
  AstraZeneca Vaccines & Immune Therapies Intern Symposium, Gaithersburg, MD. August 2025.