Bijaya B. Karki

McDermott Inc. Endowed Professor

Contact

bbkarki@lsu.edu 
Office 3272G
Patrick F. Taylor Hall

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Computational Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1997

Diploma with Honors, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 1994

M.Sc. with Distinction, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1992

Bijaya Karki

  • CSC 4103: Operating Systems
  • CSC 4356: Interactive Computer Graphics
  • CSC 7443: Scientific Information Visualization
  • CSC 7800: Computer Science Research Seminar
  • Computational Materials
  • Large-Scale Simulations
  • Shakya A., & Karki, B.B. (2025). Weakly supervised graph neural networks for scalable 3D phase segmentation in molecular dynamics simulations. Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery,  Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2025) - Volume 1: KDIR, pages 302-312.
  • Karki, B.B., Jackson, C., Mallick, E., Shakya, A., Ghosh, D.B., & Morra, G. (2025). A comparative study of nitrogen incorporation in silicate, metallic, and bulk earth melts at high pressure. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 671, 119653.
  • B. Ghosh, D., B. Karki, B., & Wang, J. (2025). Speciation and diffusive dynamics in hydrated grain boundaries of complex oxide Gd2Ti2O7. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 52(1), 6.
  • Karki, B. B., & Shakya, A. (2024). Deep neural network potentials for molecular dynamics simulations of complex melt systems. AGU24.
  • Shakya, A., Ghosh, D. B., Jackson, C., Morra, G., & Karki, B. B. (2024). Insights into core-mantle differentiation from bulk Earth melt simulations. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 18739.
  • Ranjit, S., Zhang, J., & Karki, B. B. (2024). Improved Polyp Segmentation of Irregular Shapes in Colonoscopy Images. In 2024 IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT) (pp. 380-386). IEEE.
  • Gyawali, D., Zhang, J., & Karki, B. B. (2024). Region-Transformer: Self-Attention Region Based Class-Agnostic Point Cloud Segmentation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01407.
  • Karki, B. B., Ghosh, D. B., Wang, J., & Karato, S. I. (2023). Crystal鈥搈elt interfaces in Mg2SiO4 at high pressure: structural and energetics insights from first-principles simulations. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 50(4), 31.
  • Banjara, D., Ghosh, D. B., & Karki, B. B. (2023). First-principles simulations of liquid iron-heavy element alloys at high pressure. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 337, 107008.
  • Bajgain, S.K., Ashley, A.W., Mookherjee, M., Ghosh, D.B., & Karki, B.B. (2022). Insights into magma ocean dynamics from the transport properties of basaltic melt. Nature communications, 13(1), 7590.
  • 2022: AGU Fellow, American Geophysical Union
  • 2015: Excellence in Refereeing, AGU Editor's Citation
  • 2012: JSPS Fellowship, Japan Society for Promotion of Science
  • 2010: 海角社区 Rainmakers Faculty Mid-Career Scholar Award
  • 2009: JMGM Graphics Prize, Elsevier and Molecular Graphics Modeling Society
  • 2008: Phi-Kappa-Phi Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 海角社区 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
  • 2004: NSF Career Award
  • 2021-2025: NASA Emerging Worlds, PI: Bijaya B. Karki, $256,821. 
  • 2020-2025: CSEDI Collaborative, PI: Bijaya B. Karki, $183,998.