About

I'm Kisan Thapa, a PhD candidate in Computer Science 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 and graph neural networks — to decipher complex biological systems from omics data. I'm interested in how we can encode biological prior knowledge into neural network architectures to make models that are not just accurate, but interpretable and scientifically meaningful.

I work within the Network Biology Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Özgün Babur .

Before my PhD I completed a Bachelor of Computer Engineering at Pokhara University, Nepal. That background in systems and software still shapes how I think about research: rigorous engineering and good science are not in tension — they reinforce each other.

Outside research, I write about things I'm learning on the blog — paper reviews, methods breakdowns, and the occasional longer essay on topics that interest me.