Bishesh Khanal
Dreamer, scientist and entrepreneur — building AI for the real world, from Nepal.
- Founding Chairperson · Founding & former Executive Director, NAAMII
- Research Scientist, NAAMII
- AI in medical imaging · AI for health in low-resource settings · infrastructure to reorganize work in a post-AI world
- Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Tangible
- PhD, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France · Postdoc, King's College & Imperial College London
Dreamer
Building NAAMII from scratch, and the ecosystem of research, talent and startups around it, so that world-class AI work can happen in and from Nepal.
The NAAMII story →Scientist
70+ papers across medical imaging, AI for maternal and global health in low-resource settings, trustworthy AI, and now the reorganization of work.
Research & publications →Entrepreneur
Tangible, a learning-to-work platform where I am co-founder and CSO, along with Diyo.ai and Terahs. NAAMII itself was built as a profit-not-distributing venture.
Ventures →What I'm working on
Reorganizing work
A research program on how people and AI agents together reorganize an organization's processes, and how to teach toward that.
Tangible
Personalized, problem-based learning and competency-based assessment, built on a knowledge graph of skills.
NAAMII Innovation Factory
Setting up the process, networks, funds and people to grow globally competitive startups out of Nepal.
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