Multimodal Learning Lab

Multimodal Learning Lab is a cross-border lab based at the University of Aberdeen, UK and NAAMII, Nepal. Dr. Binod Bhattarai co-founded NAAMII, Nepal, in 2018. The lab focuses on developing machine learning algorithms for processing information from both real and synthetic heterogeneous sources, such as vision, text, and speech, to enable computers to understand, interpret, and reason. The applications include computer vision, medical image analysis, energy, agriculture, and low-resource language processing.

Faculty:

Binod Bhattarai 

PhD Students: 

1. Jardin Ruari ( with Prof. Angus Watson)

2. Krit Duangprom (with Dr. Tryphon Lambrou)

Research Assistants:

1. Pranav Poudel 

Topic: Multimodal Federated Learning, Active Learning

2. Sandesh Pokhrel 

Topic:  Multimodal OOD detection in gastro-vision

3. Sanjay Bhandari

    Topic:  Multimodal OOD detection in gastro-vision

4. Sanskar Amgain

    Topic: Clients Selection in Federated Learning 

5. Prashant Shrestha

    Topic:  Vision-language Representation Learning from Noisy Data

6. Anju Chettri 

Topic:  Anomaly detection in MRI and CT-Scan

7. Saurab Dangol

        Topic: Surgical Action Recognition and Scene Understanding

Associate Members:

1. Bidur Khanal (PhD student at RIT, USA)

2. Alina Devkota (PhD student at West Virginia University, USA)

3. Jacob Thrasher (PhD student at West Virginia University, USA)

Interns:

1. Krischal

2. Aavash

3. Pratik 

Previous Members/Mentees:

1. Rumesya Bodur (PhD student at Imperial College London, UK, now Postdoc University of Southampton)

2. Razvan Caramalau (PhD student at Imperial, Postdoc at UCL, UK), now Senior Research Engineer, Medtronics, UK)

3. Anita Rau (PhD student at UCL, now Postdoc at Stanford University, USA)

4. Baris Gecer (PhD student at Imperial, now Senior Researcher at Amazon)

5. Razvan Caramalau (PhD student at Imperial, now Postdoc at UCL)

6. Jiaz Sun (PhD student at Imperial College London)

7. Milan Gautam (RA, Now PhD student at Oregon State University, USA)

8. Ronast Subedi ( RA, Now MS with RAship at Florida State University, USA)

9. Rebati Raman Gaire ( RA,  Now MS with RAship at  the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)

10. Sulav Timilsina (RA, PhD Student, fall 2024)

11. Manasi Katel (MSc student, Now PhD student at Inria, France)

12. Bidur Khanal (RA, Now PhD student at RIT, USA)

13. Shrawan Kumar Thapa  (AI Engineer, Ecomedics, UK)

14. Sachin Acharya  (Intern, now Engineer at Fusemachines, Nepal)