I am a Ph.D student of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. I work with Dr. Jinwei Ye at Imaging and Vision lab at IVLab. My research interests include 3D reconstruction, object detection, image recovery, image super-resolution, and image segmentation.

PhD in Computer Science

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Fall 2017 – Present)

MS in Computer Science

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge (Fall 2015 – Fall 2017)

Bachelors in Computer Engineering

Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (Aug 2009 – Dec 2013)

Internship, Distributed Rendering Engine

OPPO US Research Center, Palo Alto, CA (Summer 2021)

Internship, Advanced Graphics Platform

Futurewei Technologies, Santa Clara, CA (Summer 2020)

Summer Assistantship

Experemental Statistics on Machine Learning Mosquito Analysis Grant for LSU and St. Tammany Mosquito Abatement District Project (Summer 2019)

Graduate Research Assistant

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (Fall 2015 – Present)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (Fall 2015 – Present)

Software Engineer

Deerwalk Inc., Lexington, MA | Kathmandu, Nepal (Jan 2015 – Jul 2015)

Associate Software Engineer

Deerwalk Inc., Lexington, MA | Kathmandu, Nepal (Nov 2013 – Jan 2015)

"Learning to Remove Refractive Distortions from Underwater Images" S. Thapa, N. Li, and J. Ye, IEEE/CVF International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)

"Unsupervised Non-Rigid Image Distortion Removal via Grid Deformation"
N. Li, S. Thapa, C. Whyte, A. Reed, S. Jaysuriya, and J. Ye, IEEE/CVF International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)

"Dynamic Fluid Surface Reconstruction Using Deep Neural Network" S. Thapa, N. Li, and J. Ye, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020 [ORAL < 2%] [GitHub][PDF]

"Dynamic Fluid Surface Reconstruction Using Deep Neural Network"
S. Thapa, N. Li, and J. Ye, IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2020 [Poster Presentation]

"Interactive Web-Based Visualization of Atomic Position-Time Series Data"
S. Thapa and B. B. Karki, American GeoPhysical Union (AGU), 2017 [Poster Presentation]

Louisiana State University (Course Instructor)

• CSC 2463 Programming Digital Media (Spring 2018 - Spring 2021)
• Teaching Report 2021
• Teaching Report 2020
• Teaching Report 2019

Louisiana State University (Graduate Teaching Assistant)

• CSC 1240 Stats & Graph MATLAB
• CSC 1350 Beginner Object Oriented Programming
• CSC 1350 Advanced Object Oriented Programming
• CSC 2262 Numerical Methods
• CSC 3102 Advanced Data Structures
• CSC 4263 Video Game Design
• CSC 4356 Interactive Computer Graphics
• CSC 4444 Artificial Intelligence