Safal Thapaliya
Hello there. I’m a second-year PhD student at the University of Connecticut’s School of Computing, advised by Prof. Chuxu Zhang. My work sits at the intersection of large language models, resource-efficient ML, trustworthy graph neural networks, and AI for healthcare.
Before UConn, I was a research assistant at NAAMII under Dr. Bishesh Khanal, where I worked on vision-language models, medical image segmentation, and object detection, and shipped healthcare AI prototypes alongside KIAS and Dr. Taman Upadhaya. I earned my B.E. in Computer Engineering from IOE, Pulchowk Campus in 2022. Earlier, I was a founding developer at Clamphook (2019–2022) and interned at Logpoint on Linux server administration and distributed log handling.
Publications
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For a complete list of publications, see my Google Scholar.