About
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, WVU School of Medicine (PI: Dr. Gangqing Hu). My research centers on the measurement and evaluation of large language models and multimodal foundation models in clinical AI — identifying systematic failure modes that matter for patient safety.
Active research threads: sycophancy in chatbot clinical consultations, prompt framing bias in dermoscopy, text-dominant reasoning failures in multimodal models, and foundation model benchmarking for diabetic retinopathy grading. Clinical domains: dermatology, psychiatry, and ophthalmology.
News
Jun 2026
Paper published in
JAAD: "Text-Dominant Decision-Making by Large Multimodal Models in Dermatology Clinical Challenges."
doijournal
Jun 2026
Paper published in
JAAD International: "Sensing but not alerting: ChatGPT mental health triage gaps in simulated psychodermatology conversations."
doijournal
May 2026
Paper accepted in JAAD: "The Cost of AI Sycophancy in Dermoscopic Diagnosis."journal
May 2026
Paper published in
Diagnostics: "Comparative Analysis of General-Purpose vs. Domain-Specific Multimodal Models for Diabetic Retinopathy Classification."
doijournal
Apr 2026
Co-authored paper in
npj Digital Medicine (IF 15.1): AI-generated psychiatric vignette evaluation.
doijournal
Apr 2026
Comment accepted in
JAAD: evolving GPT performance in dermoscopic diagnosis.
doijournal
Nov 2025
Oral presentation at AAAI SECURE4H, Arlington VA: "Sensing Without Alerting."talk
Aug 2025
Paper at
IEEE IGARSS 2025: patch-based tiny object classification for aerial images.
doiconference
Selected Publications
M. I. Nouyed, L. E. Keplinger, H. Akhter et al. · JAAD, 2026
The Cost of AI Sycophancy in Dermoscopic Diagnosis accepted
M. I. Nouyed, D. A. Adjeroh, D. Xu, M. S. Kolodney, G. Hu · JAAD
M. I. Nouyed*, L. E. Kozlowski* et al. · JAAD International, 2026
M. I. Nouyed, M. Al-Mamun, D. A. Adjeroh, G. Hu · Diagnostics, 2026
W. Zheng, D. N. Chandran, D. E. Elswick, M. I. Nouyed, G. Hu · npj Digital Medicine, 2026
Full list → Google Scholar
Talks
Nov 2025
Sensing Without Alerting: The People-Pleaser Cost of General-Purpose Chatbots in Dermatology Patients with Psychiatric Comorbidity
AAAI SECURE4H Fall Symposium · Oral · Arlington, VA
Aug 2025
Patch-Based Tiny Object Classification for High Resolution Aerial Images
IEEE IGARSS 2025 · Poster · Honolulu, HI
Jul 2025
Using Multimodal LLMs for Studying Scientific Articles
WVU Summer Workshop on AI, Digital Health & BioML · Oral · Morgantown, WV
Jul 2024
Efficient Analysis of Gigapixel Histopathological Images
WVU Summer Workshop on AI & Digital Health · Oral · Morgantown, WV
Dec 2022
Efficient Classification of Very High Resolution Histopathological Images
IEEE BIBM 2022 · Oral · Las Vegas, NV
Projects
Multi-agent simulation framework evaluating sycophancy and psychiatric safety failures in ChatGPT psychodermatology consultations.
Evaluation of text-dominant reasoning failures in large multimodal models for clinical dermatology tasks.
Large-scale experiments on prompt framing effects on LLM melanoma classification across GPT-5, Gemini, and MedGemma.
Benchmarking general-purpose vs. domain-specific foundation models for diabetic retinopathy grading across zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning paradigms.
Discriminative patch selection and ensemble decision fusion for gigapixel whole-slide image classification.
Teaching
Sp 2025
EE465: Digital Image Processing — sole instructor, undergraduate level
Lane Dept. of CSEE · West Virginia University
Fa 2024
Undergraduate research mentoring — cellular image preprocessing pipelines
Social Media and Data Analytics Lab · WVU
iqbalnaved@gmail.com ·
Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, WVU School of Medicine ·
Morgantown, WV
