Manish Dhakal

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Ph.D. Student, UTK

CV/NLP

Manish Dhakal is a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supervised by Dr. Yi Ding. He completed his M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia State University. His primary line of research is within model compression and efficient learning of computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) applications. His publications have been presented at premier venues, such as WACV, MICCAI, ACCV, IJCNLP-AACL, CVPR-W, etc.

News

Nov 11, 2025 GFT: Graph Feature Tuning for Efficient Point Cloud Analysis has been accepted to WACV, 2026.
Oct 25, 2025 A paper on VLM preference optimization has been accepted to IJCNLP-AACL, 2025.
Sep 20, 2024 TuneVLSeg has been accepted for oral presentation at ACCV, 2024.
Aug 23, 2024 Awarded with LMIC Travel Grant by MICCAI, 2024, to present our research work.
Jun 18, 2024 VLSM-Adapter research paper has been accepted for the main conference of MICCAI, 2024.