Yogatheesan Varatharajah

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Joined

July 2019

Names

Emails

****@illinois.edu (Confirmed)

****@umn.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (umn.edu)

2023 – Present

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2020 – 2023

PhD student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (illinois.edu)

2014 – 2020

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Greg Worrell

2015 – 2020

PhD Advisor

Ravi Iyer

2014 – 2020

Expertise

Computational Neuroscience

Present

Graphical Models

Present

Self-supervised learning

Present

Distribution shifts

Present

Explainability

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electronic health records

Present

Publications

EEG Foundation Models: A Critical Review of Current Progress and Future Directions
Gayal Kuruppu, Neeraj Wagh, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop BrainBodyFM
- Readers: Everyone
Tensor Decomposition of Large-scale Clinical EEGs Reveals Interpretable Patterns of Brain Physiology
Teja Gupta, Neeraj Wagh, Samarth Rawal, Brent M. Berry, Gregory A. Worrell, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 20 Aug 2023
- NER 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Latent Space Robustness and Uncertainty of EEG-ML Models under Realistic Distribution Shifts
Neeraj Wagh, Jionghao Wei, Samarth Rawal, Brent M. Berry, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 08 Feb 2026
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Deep learning identifies brain structures that predict cognition and explain heterogeneity in cognitive aging
Krishnakant V. Saboo, Chang Hu, Yogatheesan Varatharajah, Scott A. Przybelski, Robert I. Reid, Christopher G. Schwarz, Jonathan Graff-Radford, David S. Knopman, Mary M. Machulda, Michelle M. Mielke, Ronald C. Petersen, Paul M. Arnold, Gregory A. Worrell, David T. Jones, Clifford R. Jack Jr., Ravishankar K. Iyer, Prashanthi Vemuri
- 2022 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- NeuroImage 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Latent Space Robustness and Uncertainty of EEG-ML Models under Realistic Distribution Shifts
Neeraj Wagh, Jionghao Wei, Samarth Rawal, Brent M. Berry, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 20 Aug 2023
- NeurIPS 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Domain-guided Self-supervision of EEG Data Improves Downstream Classification Performance and Generalizability
Neeraj Wagh, Jionghao Wei, Samarth Rawal, Brent M. Berry, Leland Barnard, Benjamin H. Brinkmann, Gregory A. Worrell, David T. Jones, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- 2021 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- ML4H@NeurIPS 2021
- Readers: Everyone
SCORE-IT: A Machine Learning-based Tool for Automatic Standardization of EEG Reports
Samarth Rawal, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- 2021 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Electrophysiological Correlates of Brain Health Help Diagnose Epilepsy and Lateralize Seizure Focus
Yogatheesan Varatharajah, Brent M. Berry, Boney Joseph, Irena Balzekas, Václav Kremen, Benjamin H. Brinkmann, Gregory A. Worrell, Ravishankar K. Iyer
- 2020 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- EMBC 2020
- Readers: Everyone
A Dynamic Human-in-the-loop Recommender System for Evidence-based Clinical Staging of COVID-19
Yogatheesan Varatharajah, Haotian Chen, Andrew Trotter, Ravishankar K. Iyer
- 2020 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- HealthRecSys@RecSys 2020
- Readers: Everyone
EEG-GCNN: Augmenting Electroencephalogram-based Neurological Disease Diagnosis using a Domain-guided Graph Convolutional Neural Network
Neeraj Wagh, Yogatheesan Varatharajah
- 2020 (modified: 25 Jul 2022)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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