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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

* indicates equal contribution

Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Manish Dhakal, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2024)
Oral Presentation

Manish Dhakal, Rabin Adhikari, Safal Thapaliya, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)
International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2024)

Kanchan Poudel*, Manish Dhakal*, Prasiddha Bhandari*, Rabin Adhikari*, Safal Thapaliya*, Bishesh Khanal

(2024)
Medical Imaging in Deep Learning 2024
Oral Presentation

For a complete list of publications, see my google scholar.