Summary
Kushal Kafle is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of experience applying deep learning to visual and multimodal reasoning, currently leading research at Adobe in Sunnyvale. His Ph.D. in Imaging Science underpins a focused research trajectory in visual question answering (VQA), where he has developed novel algorithms, datasets, and Bayesian approaches that improved state-of-the-art performance. Published across top venues including CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS and ACL, he blends computer vision, NLP, and robustness/bias analysis to push both practical and diagnostic advances. Having progressed from research intern to senior scientist at Adobe and completed research internships at Microsoft, he pairs academic rigor with product-aware research delivery. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent emphasis on measuring and mitigating model bias and robustness in multimodal systems, not just raw accuracy.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Imaging Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Imaging Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Division, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First Division at Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University
English, Nepali, Nepali