Kisan Thapa
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Boston, specializing in Computational Biology and Deep Learning.
My research focuses on developing advanced computational methods, particularly leveraging deep learning, to decipher complex biological systems from omics data.
I work within the Network Biology Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Özgün Babur .
News
- Dec 2025
Awarded CSM Dean's Doctoral Research Fellowship
Sponsored by Oracle and UMass Boston.
- May 2025
Received Master of Science in Computer Science
En-route MS from University of Massachusetts Boston.
- Mar 2025
Paper published in Cell Press Patterns
- Feb 2025
Conference Presentation
Presented at the UMass Boston Graduate Research Symposium.
- Dec 2023
Passed PhD Qualifying Exam
Advanced to PhD Candidacy.
Recent Posts
All posts →- Understand Precision and Recall once for all
Review of Precision and Recall (Hand and Pereira), a framework for understanding precision and recall.
February 14, 2026 Precision and Recall · Evaluation Metrics
- Inductive Representation Learning on Large Graphs
Review of GraphSAGE (Hamilton et al.), a framework for inductive representation learning that generates embeddings for unseen nodes by sampling and aggregating features from local neighborhoods.
February 3, 2026 Graph Learning · Inductive
Education
- 2021 – Present
PhD in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Boston
- 2021 – 2025
Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Boston
- 2013 – 2017
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
Pokhara University, Nepal
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