Ashwin Dhakal
Graduate Research Assistant
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Dhakal is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Missouri-Columbia with eight years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and bioinformatics, focused on healthcare and structural biology applications. He has authored 15+ publications with 400+ citations and built state-of-the-art deep learning methods—adopted by Harvard Medical School—for particle picking and 3D segmentation in cryo-EM/ET, and curated the largest open-access labelled cryo-EM protein particle dataset that enabled 25+ follow-up studies. Technically fluent in PyTorch/TensorFlow, Transformers, diffusion models, equivariant GNNs and 3D architectures, he also engineered end-to-end pipelines for large-scale GPU deployments, CUDA-enabled containers, and AWS orchestration. Beyond research, Ashwin has hands-on experience translating models into reproducible production workflows and mentoring students, and he uniquely blends teaching rigor with practical systems engineering to accelerate drug-discovery and viral-structure modeling.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Tribhuvan University, Institute of EngineeringUniversity of Missouri
English, Nepali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
29reputation
9kreached
6answers
3questions
Github Skills (29)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
deep-neural-networks9
neural-network9
kitti6
html6
foreign-keys6
django-models6
django-forms6
image-resizing6
forms6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CodeforNepal/mero-book
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Book donating Web platform for Nepal
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 4 months
djangoweb-platformnepal
BioinfoMachineLearning/cryoppp
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:40 commits, 42 pushes, 5 comments in 1 month
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