Rahul Thapa

PhD student, Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University

Joined

May 2023

Names

Rahul Thapa (Preferred)

Emails

****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2023 – 2028

Researcher

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2022 – 2023

Undergrad student

Villanova University (villanova.edu)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

James Zou

2024 – 2028

Expertise

Machine Learning

2020 – Present

Biomedicine

2019 – Present

Publications

A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction
Rahul Thapa, Magnus Ruud Kjaer, Bryan He, Ian Connick Covert, Hyatt Moore IV, Gauri Ganjoo, M Brandon Westover, Poul Jørgen Jennum, Andreas Brink-Kjaer, Emmanuel Mignot, James Zou
- Nature Medicine
- Readers: Everyone
How Well Can General Vision-Language Models Learn Medicine By Watching Public Educational Videos?
Rahul Thapa, Andrew Li, Qingyang Wu, Bryan He, Yuki Sahashi, Christina Binder, Angela Zhang, Ben Athiwaratkun, Shuaiwen Leon Song, David Ouyang, James Zou
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
MedCaseReasoning: Evaluating and learning diagnostic reasoning from clinical case reports
Kevin Wu, Eric Wu, Rahul Thapa, Kevin Wei, Angela Zhang, Jacqueline J. Tao, Min Woo Sun, Alejandro Lozano, James Zou
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MedAlign: A Clinician-Generated Dataset for Instruction Following with Electronic Medical Records
Scott L Fleming, Alejandro Lozano, William Haberkorn, Jenelle A Jindal, Eduardo Pontes Reis, Rahul Thapa, Louis Blankemeier, Julian Zachary Genkins, Ethan Steinberg, Ashwin Nayak, Birju Patel, Chia-Chun Chiang, Alison Callahan, Zepeng Frazier Huo, Sergios Gatidis, Scott Adams, Oluseyi Abiodun Fayanju, Shreya Jitendra Shah, Thomas Robert Savage, Ethan Goh et al. (10 additional authors not shown)
- AAAI 20-
- Readers: Everyone
OctoTools: An Agentic Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning
Pan Lu, Bowen Chen, Sheng Liu, Rahul Thapa, Joseph Boen, James Zou
- ICLR 2025 FM-Wild Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
OctoTools: An Agentic Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning
Pan Lu, Bowen Chen, Sheng Liu, Rahul Thapa, Joseph Boen, James Zou
- Reasoning and Planning for LLMs @ ICLR2025
- Readers: Everyone
SMiR: A Synthetic Data Pipeline To Improve Multi-Image Reasoning
Andrew Li, Rahul Chalamala, Rahul Thapa, Qingyang Wu, Kezhen Chen, James Zou
- ICLR 2025 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Dragonfly: Multi-Resolution Zoom-In Encoding Enhances Vision-Language Models
Rahul Thapa, Kezhen Chen, Ian Connick Covert, Rahul Chalamala, Ben Athiwaratkun, Shuaiwen Leon Song, James Zou
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep Across Brain Activity, ECG and Respiratory Signals
Rahul Thapa, Bryan He, Magnus Ruud Kjaer, Hyatt Moore IV, Gauri Ganjoo, Emmanuel Mignot, James Zou
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SleepFM: Multi-modal Representation Learning for Sleep across ECG, EEG and Respiratory Signals
Rahul Thapa, Bryan He, Magnus Ruud Kjaer, Hyatt Moore IV, Gauri Ganjoo, Emmanuel Mignot, James Y. Zou
- AAAI 2024 SSS on Clinical FMs
- Readers: Everyone

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