Safal Thapaliya
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Hello there! I am Safal Thapaliya. I am a first year PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at the School of Computing, University of Connecticut. At UConn, I work in the MINDS Lab supervised by Prof. Chuxu Zhang. My research currently focuses on the intersection of graph learning and large language models. I am working on leveraging large language models (LLMs) to generate good representations for text-attributed graphs.
Before joining UConn, I worked at Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), supervised by Bishesh Khanal, Ph.D., where my primary research focus was on using vision-language models for medical image segmentation.
Research Interests
I am mainly interested in developing resource-efficient techniques to utilize data of different modalities for resource-constrained settings. Recently, I am working in leveraging LLMs to describe the topological information of graph data.
Publications
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For a complete list of publications, see my google scholar.