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 

Research Assistants:

1. Suman Sapkota 

Topic: Neural Network  Pruning and Optimization

2. Pranav Poudel 

Topic: Multimodal Federated Learning, Active Learning

3. Sudarshan Regmi 

Topic: Out-of-Distribution Generalization

4. Sandesh Pokhrel 

Topic: Multimodal Data Augmentation 

5. Sanjay Bhandari

    Topic: Multimodal Learning

6. Sahaj Raj Malla

             Topic: Nepali  Large Language Model

7. Sanskar Amgain

    Topic: Clients Selection in Federated Learning 

8. Prashant Shrestha

    Topic: Multimodal Representation Learning

9. Anju Chettri 

10.  Ashma Yonghang

11. Sabita Rajbanshi (MSc student)

Associate Members:

1. Razvan Caramalau (Postdoc at UCL, UK)

2. Rumesya Bodur (PhD student at Imperial College London, UK)

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

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

Interns:

1. Sachin Acharya 

1. Krischal

2. Aavash

3. Pratik 

Previous Members/Mentees:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

News:

1. Dr Binod Bhattarai is awarded with 20K GBP Frontiers Seed Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

2. We have a paper accepted to Medical Image Analysis (IF 13.3). Congrats to Pranav, Shrawan, and Sudarshan!

3. We have two papers accepted to MIUA 2023. Congrats Suman, Sudarshan, Pranav,  Bibek and Bidur !

4. We have a paper accepted to CVPR 2023.

5. We have a paper accepted to ICLR Workshops. 

6. Binod Bhattarai is serving as a Program Co-chair of 4th Edition of Nepal AI School.

7. We have a paper accepted to Medical Image Analysis (MedIA).

8. We are organizing a workshop on "Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI)" in conjunction with MICCAI 2023.

9. Binod Bhattarai is serving as a Paper Selection Chair at BMVC 2023.

10. Suman Sapkota got a travel grant of 1000 USD to present a paper at Slow-DNN workshop held in Abu Dhabi. Congratulations !