Multimodal Learning Lab

The Multimodal Learning Lab, a cross-border initiative between the University of Aberdeen and NAAMII, Nepal, is at the forefront of developing robust and interpretable machine learning algorithms. Our mission is to pioneer algorithms that can reason across complex, heterogeneous data—from surgical videos to low-resource languages—to address some of the most critical challenges in healthcare, energy, and global agriculture. We are dedicated to building a global research pipeline that fosters talent and innovation.

Our research is guided by a core philosophy: to build AI that is not only powerful but also trustworthy and explainable. We believe that true intelligence lies in the ability to seamlessly integrate diverse data sources and that the future of AI is inherently multimodal. We are committed to an open and collaborative research model, aiming to create foundational work that empowers researchers worldwide.

Faculty:

Dr. Binod Bhattarai, 

Assistant Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK

Co-founder and Adjunct Faculty Member, NAAMII, Nepal

PhD Students (University of Aberdeen, UK)

1. Jardin Ruari - Assessing AI algorithms for Capsule Endoscopy

2. Krit Duangprom - Surgical Tool and Hand Pose Estimation 

3. Aminu Lawal - Hallucination Detection in VLM

Research Assistants (NAAMII, Nepal)

1. Anju Chettri   -  Explainable Anomaly Detection in GI Endoscopy

2. Saurab Koju   - Surgical Vision World Model

3. Bibek Niroula - Multimodal Federated Learning 

4. Pratik Shrestha - Surgical Data Science 

5. Saurav Bastola - Synthetic Data Generation  

6. Niyoj Oli - Hallucination Detection in  VLM

7. Aavash Chhetri - Multimodal Federated Learning 

8. Love Panta - Surgical Vision World Model

Previous Members/Mentees:

1. Pranav Poudel  - RA @NAAMII, Nepal -> PhD student,  MILA, Canada

2. Bidur Khanal - PhD student @RIT, USA -> NVIDIA, Bay Area, USA

3. Sudarshan Regmi - RA @NAAMII, Nepal -> PhD student, Dartmouth College, USA

4. Sandesh Pokhrel - RA @NAAMII, Nepal -> PhD student at  the University of Utah, USA

5. Sanjay Bhandari - RA @NAAMII, Nepal -> PhD student at the University of Utah, USA

6. Prashant Shrestha - RA @NAAMII,Nepal -> PhD Student at RIT, USA

7. Sanskar Amgain - RA @NAAMII, Nepal -> PhD student at Tennessee, USA

8. Rumesya Bodur - PhD student @ Imperial College London, UK ->  Postdoc University of Southampton, UK

9. Razvan Caramalau - PhD student @ Imperial, Postdoc at UCL, UK -> Senior Research Engineer, Medtronics, UK

10. Anita Rau - PhD student @ UCL,UK ->  Postdoc at Stanford University, USA

11. Baris Gecer - PhD student @ Imperial College London, UK -> Senior Researcher at Amazon

12. Razvan Caramalau - PhD student @ Imperial College London, UK ->  Postdoc at UCL

13. Jiaz Sun - PhD student @ Imperial College London, UK  -> Apple Inc., UK

14. Milan Gautam - RA @NAAMII,Nepal, -> PhD student, Oregon State University, USA

15. Ronast Subedi - RA @NAAMII,  Nepal -> PhD  Florida, State University, USA 

16. Rebati Raman Gaire - RA @NAAMII, Nepal ->  MS,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (Outstanding Masters Thesis Award)

17. Sulav Timilsina - RA @NAAMII, Nepal

18. Manasi Katel - MSc student @UCL -> PhD student at Inria, France

19. Bidur Khanal - RA @NAAMII, Nepal,  -> PhD student, RIT, USA

20. Shrawan Kumar Thapa - RA @NAAMII -> AI Engineer, Ecomedics, UK

21. Sachin Acharya - Intern @NAAMII, Nepal ->  AI Engineer at Fusemachines, Nepal