About me

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Delaware, specializing in computer vision and deep learning, with a strong focus on video processing and biomedical image analysis. I am experienced in leading research projects, building machine learning models, and publishing in top conferences. I am currently seeking a research-driven role to leverage my expertise in machine learning and deep learning for impactful innovations.

Research

I lead cutting-edge research in computer vision and biomedical image analysis under Dr. Chandra Kambhamettu at the Video/Image Modelling and Synthesis (VIMS) lab. Some of my research projects include activity recognition, retinal disease detection, VR simulation, small object counting, and forensic signature recognition. I have also applied deep learning to real-world problems, such as sickle-cell retinopathy detection from OCT images and automatic biomedical document classification. You can learn more about my research in OCT images and sickle-cell retinopathy here.

My research interests include Deep learning, Computer vision, Medical image analysis, and Video processing.

Publications

• Bhattarai A, Jin J and Kambhamettu C. “Analyzing Adjacent B-Scans to Localize Sickle Cell Retinopathy in OCTs”. Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2024. Link
• Bhattarai A, Jin J and Kambhamettu C. “Detachable Encoder Transformer for SCR Detection”. IOVS 2024: ARVO E-Abstract. Link
• Jin J, Bhattarai A, Miller R, Kolb EA and Kambhamettu C. "A deep learning system for sickle cell retinopathy detection using retinal OCT images from children with sickle cell disease". IOVS 2022: ARVO E-Abstract. Link
• Bhattarai A, Kambhamettu C, and Jin J. "CUNet: Towards continuous multi-class contour detection for retinal layer segmentation in OCT images", 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2022. Link

Education and work background

(2020-present)    Graduate Research Assistant        University of Delaware

(2020-present)    PhD - Computer Science        University of Delaware

(2018-2020)        Machine Learning Engineer     EKbana Nepal

(2013-2017)        BE - Computer Engineering     Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University

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