Contact Information
Kathmandu, Nepal
Email: <firstname>DOT<lastname>@naamii.org.np
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML)
- Medical Imaging Informatics, Computer Vision
- Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Language
- Applications of ML and AI in Low Income Countries
Honors and Awards
COVID-19 Innovation Grant, NAST Link .
COVID-19 HPC Consortium Link .
NVIDIA GPU Grant Award The Titan XP.
1st prize (popular vote) in MICCAI Educational Challenge 2014 at MIT, Boston. (Out of 16 submitted videos (2014).
MICCAI Travel Grant, MICCAI 2014.
INRIA Scholarship for studying Msc in Computational Biology and Biomedicine at Polytech-Nice Sophia, France (2011-12).
Erasmus Mundus, European Research and Educational Collaboration with Asia (EURECA) scholarship, to study as a visiting student at the University of York, UK (2009).
Team leader representing Nepal in an international robotics competition of the Asia Pacific regions with 19 participating countries (ABU Robocon Hanoi, Vietnam, 2007).
1st position in Nationwide Entrance Examination to get admission and full scholarship for the undergraduate studies in any engineering schools of Nepal affiliated to Tribhuvan University (from among thousands of students, 2004).
Education
INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée; University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Polytech Nice-Sophia, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Université de Bourgogne, Centre Universitaire Condercet, Le Creusot, France
University of York, UK
Pulchowk Campus, Insitute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University
Working Experience
Research Scientist, and Chairperson
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher: @ BioMedIA
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Intelligent Fetal Imaging and Diagnosis
Masters Internship: Modeling and simulation of local atrophy in Alzheimer's disease.
Summer Internship: VHDL data stream library for advance image processing methodology.
Research Assistant, Innovation lab:
- Conceived and conducted a project on the development of a test platform for vision based ball tracking robot using FPGA.
- Instructor for lectures in C Programming for the first year undergraduate students.
Mentor for a robotics team
- Mentored eventual winners of the Robocup Nepal 2008, a nationwide annual robot contest for engineering undergraduate students.
Unofficial Mentor in ABU Robocon 2008, Pune, India
- Mentored a team that won Best Autonomous Robot Award out of the teams from 19 different countries of Asia-Pacific region participating in the international robot contest.
Professional Services and Volunteering
Co-chair: Second Nepal Winter school in AI. Pokhara, Nepal, 2019.
Facilitator: Science and Innovation Theme in Second Consultative Meeting of a newly proposed University of Nepal. Gaindakot, Nepal. October, 2019.
Co-chair: Global Health: Imaging in Developing Countries. ISBI, Venice, Italy, 2019.
Co-organizer: First Nepal Winter school in AI. Kathmandu, Nepal, 2018.
Organizer: Interactive Session with Prof. Bhagawan Koirala on opportunities of health informatics in Global Health. St. Thomas' Hospital, King's College London, UK, 30 July, 2018.
Co-organizer: Nepal Computer Vision and Machine Learning Winter School. Kathmandu, Nepal, 2016.
Volunteer: MICCAI, Nice, France, 2012.
Peer Reviewer
IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging: 2018
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: 2017, 2018
MICCAI: 2015-current
IJCAI: 2017
ICCV: 2017
Student Supervision
Prateema Upreti, Bidur Khanal, Lavsen Dahal Postgraduate
Lavsen Dahal, July - Aug 2018. Visiting Masters Summer Erasmus student, Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
Undergraduate
Yvonne Kong, Oct 2017 - July 2018. BEng, Department of Computing, Imperial College London.
Extra Curricular and Hobbies
Cricket
- Best player and best batsman of the year awards on 2014 and 2015.
- Bowler of the tournament in 7-a-side tournament at Entrecasteaux, France, 2014.
Table Tennis
4th round in National Table tennis open championship, 2003.