Dr Binod Bhattarai

Biography

I am a Lecturer (US equivalent Assistant Professor) in the Natural and Computing School of the University of Aberdeen and head of the Multimodal Learning Lab. 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 University of Aberdeen, 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

For the details in the publication, visit https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PDEi58sAAAAJ

Teaching Responsibilities

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