Service
Service & policy
Organizing workshops and schools, sitting on committees, reviewing papers, and helping government use AI well. Most of the policy work is behind the scenes: I help shape AI policy and help public institutions see what AI can realistically do for service delivery.
Policy & government
- 2024Member, committee preparing the AI Policy of Nepal
Government of Nepal · Ministry of Education, Science & Technology - 27 Oct 2024Invited talk, national AI Conference: AI landscape in Nepal and a centres-of-excellence ecosystem
Government of Nepal - 5 Jan 2024Briefing, Family Welfare Division: AI-powered task-shifting in fetal ultrasound and maternal health
Government of Nepal · Ministry of Health & Population - 2023, 2024Invited talks on AI in international development
UK FCDO · Indo-Pacific & Asia-Pacific networks - 12 Apr 2023Invited talk: AI for transforming health care in LMICs
National Health Research Council (NHRC) - 2022PI, prototyping chatbots for better government service delivery
UNDP Nepal - 2020Member, Technology & Innovation High-Level Committee for the COVID-19 response
Government of Nepal · Ministry of Education, Science & Technology - 2020Coordinator, scientific committee, Nepal AI Conference 2020
Government of Nepal · Ministry of Education, Science & Technology
Cancelled due to COVID-19. - 2020PI, COVID-19 policy-level decision support system (NAST innovation grant)
Nepal Academy of Science & Technology (NAST) - 2019Member, recommending annual programmes under the Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
Government of Nepal · Ministry of Education, Science & Technology - 23 Sep 2019Speech representing the young scientists of Nepal, National Science Day
Government of Nepal - AI expert from Nepal, feedback on UNESCO's global AI-ethics guideline
UNESCO
Conferences, workshops & schools organized
- 2025Co-chair, MIRASOL workshop
MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea - 2023, 2024Co-chair, ASMUS workshop (Advances in Simplifying Medical Ultrasound)
MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, Canada · MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco - 2021, 2022Co-chair, FAIR workshop (Affordable AI and Healthcare for Resource Diverse Global Health)
MICCAI 2021 (France, virtual) · MICCAI 2022, Singapore - 2019Session co-organizer, Global Health Imaging in Developing Countries
ISBI 2019, Venice, Italy - 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023Chair, Annual Nepal AI School (ANAIS)
NAAMII, Nepal
400+ participants from 20+ countries across editions.
Committees & academies
- 2025Committee member (one of three), MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award
MICCAI Society - 2024Member, Advisory Committee
Fairness in Medical Imaging - 2021–Founding executive member (2021–2023), now member
National Young Academy of Nepal (NAYAN)
Peer review
- MICCAI2015–
- IEEE TMI2018–
- CVPR2021–Outstanding Reviewer 2021
- NeurIPS2023–
- ECCV2024–
- ICCV2017, 2021–
- ICLR2019
- MIDL2021–
- IJCAI2017–
- MRM2017, 2018
Community
- Founder, abhinavnepal.com
Crowd-sourced open database of Nepali scholars and scientists - Co-mentor (with Dr. Raunak Shrestha), RSTMH Small Grant awarded to Parikshit Prasai
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene