Dr. Binod Bhattarai is an Assistant Professor at University of Aberdeen and previously a Post-Doctoral Researcher from Imperial College London's Computer Vision and Learning Lab, where he focuses on reinforcement learning and adversarial learning techniques for automatic face analysis. He earned his PhD from Université de Caen in 2016, where his research centered on distance metric learning and deep learning approaches for facial recognition and analysis. His work bridges theoretical advances in machine learning with practical applications in biometric systems and computer vision. At NAAMII, Dr. Bhattarai leads the B Bhattarai Multimodal Learning Lab as an adjunct research scientist, advancing AI research with applications relevant to developing regions.