Niraj Thapaliya

Data scientist and software engineer. Currently completing a master’s in data science at Harvard, with five years of prior production engineering experience building large-scale software.

Work spans computer vision, LLM fine-tuning, statistical modeling, and applied ML — with the production instincts to take models from prototype to deployment.

Context-Aware Image Captioning with Scene Graphs

End-to-end image captioning pipeline conditioned on structured scene graph triples. BLEU-4 +11.4% over an image-only baseline.

May 2026 · Niraj Thapaliya

QLoRA Fine-Tuning for Structured JSON Extraction

Fine-tuning a 3B instruct model with QLoRA to produce strict JSON from free-form text — on a single consumer GPU. Exact-match accuracy 0.258 → 0.624.

May 2026 · Niraj Thapaliya

LLM Benchmark Evaluation: Multi-Agent Discussion Framework

Rigorous evaluation of a 4-agent discussion pipeline on 7,661 benchmark questions. The framework decreased accuracy on all three benchmarks — an instructive negative result.

May 2025 · Niraj Thapaliya

CNN Image Super-Resolution (4× Upscaling)

Comparison of three CNN architectures for 4× single-image super-resolution on the FFHQ dataset. Evaluated with PSNR and SSIM.

December 2024 · Niraj Thapaliya