Binay Dahal

About

Did my Masters and Phd in computer science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.. Now, working as a senior data scientist at the Metropolitan council of Twin cities.

  • I'd like to solve the problems in Natual Language Processing and Computer Vision mainly using deep learning.
  • I think about the ways to improve the representational capacity of deep model for textual and image data.
  • Sometimes, I contemplate the question "are the statistical models based on neural networks alone, enough for general AI? or should we bring the natural evolution into the mix?". Haven't found the answer yet, obviously.
  • Follows Machester United.
  • I'd like to think myself as a spiritual person. Have read and followed Osho in the past.
  • In January 2024, I attended a 10-day vipassana meditation course in Pecatonica, Illinois.
  • This year, I've set up a reading challenge on goodreads to read at least 25 books but I'm very far behind on completing it.
  • I am a novice piano and ukulele player.
  • Couple of years back, I started doing some travel vlogging. I haven't made vidoes lately though.

This list should say who I'm in a nutshell. This list might keep on changing, however.(last edited on Sep 8, 2024)

Resume

Please find my full resume here

Sumary

Binay Dahal

Ph.D. in computer science, working in the field of AI, especially deep learning. My research projects have tried to explore the new facets in computer vision and natural language understanding .

  • Minneapolis, MN
  • dabinay@gmail.com

Education

PhD, Computer Science

2018 - 2021

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

Deep learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Neuroevolution

MS, Computer Science

2016 - 2018

University of Nevada, Las Vegas,NV

Computational Geometry

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering

2009 - 2013

Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal

Notable Publications

Using deep learning for short text understanding

Binay Dahal & Justin Zhan
2017

Journal of Big data

USRRM:Pairwise Ranking and Scoring Images Using Its Aesthetic Quality

Binay Dahal & Justin Zhan
2019

IEEE Access

AutoEncoded Domains with Mean Activation for DGA botnet detection

Binay Dahal & Yoohwan Kim
2019

12th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Saustainability

Effective mutation and Recombination for evolving convolutional networks

Binay Dahal & Justin Zhan
2020

3rd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems

Research

I'm working on a personal project to do a text summarization for Nepali language. This includes curation of a supervised dataset and fine-tuning of an LLM.

My google scholar profile

Hobbies

  • Travel and vlog
  • Piano and ukulele
  • Sports: Football(not American)
  • Sports: Tennis
  • Reading fiction and non-fiction
  • Playing 8 ball on a friday night

Vlogging

Goto my youtube channel

Reading

Some of my recently read books:
  • Guns, germs and steel
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
  • SPQR: A history of ancient Rome
  • Lincoln Highway
  • A gentleman from Moscow
  • The girl with a dragon tattoo series
I update my progress on Goodreads. Click here to view my goodreads profile.

Blog

Access my blog here

Contact

Location:

Minneapolis, MN

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