About me

I am a CS Ph.D. Candidate at Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). I am advised by Dr. Rui Li at the Lab of Use-inspired Computational Intelligence (LUCI). My research focuses on continual learning and generalized category discovery, parameter-efficient adaptation, and recommender systems and user modeling. I interned at ZillowGroup as a Research Scientist Intern in the summer of 2025, developing parameter-efficient methods for continual user modeling in recommender systems. Before starting my Ph.D., I spent 2.7 years as a Machine Learning Engineer at Fusemachines in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Machine Learning: Continual Learning and Generalized Category Discovery, Recommendation Engine and Continual User Modeling
Computer Vision: Object Segmentation, Re-identification, Tracking, Action Recognition
Bioinformatics: Gene-Disease Association, Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction

Please, find my CV here.

(Jun 2026): Served as a reviewer for ECCV 2026 and NeurIPS 2026.
(Apr 2026): Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation proposal.
(Mar 2026): Our paper “Evolving Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Continual User Modeling” was accepted at ECIR 2026.
(Sep 2025): Completed a summer internship as a Research Scientist Intern at Zillow Group.
(Sep 2024): Served as a reviewer for ICLR 2025.
(May 2024): Our paper “Bayesian Adaptation of Network Depth and Width for Continual Learning” was accepted at ICML 2024.
(May 2023): Successfully defended and passed my Research Potential Assessment (RPA).
(Aug 2022): Joined the Ph.D. program in Computing and Information Sciences at RIT as a Graduate Research Assistant.
(Jan 2022): Promoted to Machine Learning Engineer III at Fusemachines.
(Jan 2021): Taught the undergraduate course “Mathematics for AI,” covering linear algebra, multivariate calculus, probability, statistics, and information theory.
(Jan 2021): Promoted to Machine Learning Engineer II at Fusemachines.
(Sep 2019): Joined Fusemachines as an Associate Machine Learning Engineer.
(Sep 2019): Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Pulchowk Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
(Jan 2019): Joined Leapfrog Technology as an AI Intern for a six-month internship.
(Jan 2018): Shortlisted for the Fusemachines AI Fellowship and fuseAI Scholarship.