Sameer Neupane

Sameer Neupane is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), conducting research at the UCSF TECH Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Peter Washington. His research focuses on mobile health, wearables, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence for mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. He develops multimodal AI systems that integrate wearable biosignals, behavioral data, and contextual information to enable real-time detection and personalized interventions for stress, anxiety, and depression. His work also includes interpretable deep learning models using audio and video data for ADHD and autism assessment, wearable-based behavioral health modeling, Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs), and AI-driven frameworks for nicotine vaping cessation using wearable and contextual sensing. Previously, he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Memphis under the mentorship of Dr. Santosh Kumar at the mDOT Center.