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Biography

I am a Lecturer (US equivalent Assistant Professor) in the Natural and Computing School of the 51cg and head of the . My research interests are machine learning, computer vision, and medical image analysis.

Before this, I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Computer Science Department of University College London, UK, till December 2022.  I  also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK, from December 2017 to July 2021. I obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Universite de Caen, France. 

Potential PhD candidates:  If you are interested in doing PhD at the 51cg, UK, please get in touch with me at binod.bhattarai@abdn.ac.uk

Selected Publications:

1.Khanal, B.; Pokhrel, S.; Bhandari S., Rana, R.; Shrestha, N.; Gurung, RB; Linte Cristian, Watson A.; Shrestha YR; Bhattarai, B. "Hallucination-aware Multimodal Benchmark for Gastrointestinal Image Analysis with Large Vision-Language Models", MICCAI 2025 (Top 9% of 3,667 papers)

 2. Poudel, P., Amgain, S., Shrestha, P., Shrestha, YR, Gyawali P., Bhattarai, B.  CAR-MFL: Cross-Modal Augmentation by Retrieval for Multimodal Federated Learning with Missing Modalities  MICCAI 2024

3. Bodur R.,  Bhattarai, B.,   Kim, T-K  "Prompt Augmentation for Self-supervised  Text-guided Image Manipulation"  CVPR 2024

4. Bhattarai, B., Subedi, R., Gaire, RR, Vazquez, E., Stoyanov, D.  "Histogram of Oriented Gradients Meet Deep Learning: A Novel Multi-task Deep Network for 2D Surgical Image Semantic Segmentation", Medical Image Analysis (MedIA) 2023

5. Caramalau, R. Bhattarai, B. and Kim, T-K "Sequential Graph Convolutional Network for Active Learning" CVPR 2021

6. Bhattarai, B. and Kim, T-K  "Inducing Optimal Attributes Representations for Conditional GANs"  ECCV 2020

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Teaching Responsibilities

• Principles and Practice of Database Systems
• Foundations in Artificial Intelligence