I am a Computer Engineering Graduate, currently working as Conversational AI Engineer
at Diyo AI. My work is an intersection of Natural Language Processing and Conversational Design. Currently, I am researching how to make large language models(LLMs) robust for low-resource languages like Nepali.
I love buying novels, reading novels and talking about novels in my free time. I also enjoy watching movies and series. If you want to talk about NLP, books or movies, hit me up!
Natural sounding Nepali Text-to-Speech system. Finetuned on our own data, available here.
Adaptation of IndicXlit for Nepali systems. Prepared a parallel corpus of ~3500 romanized-nepali words, incorporating the nuances of Nepali conversational styles
Evaluated Gender Bias in Ne-En MT, comparing LLMs and existing machine translation systems.
A Nepali variant of DistillBERT for sentence embeddings, inspired from Making Monolingual Sentence Embeddings Multilingual using Knowledge Distillation.
A Knowledge Graph made out of articles from the business section of Online Khabar - English
Award/Scholarship | Awarded By | Year |
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Ncell Excellence Scholarship - Yearwise Top Female Student (4 times winner) | Ncell | 2019-2023 |
1st Runner Up - Gritfeat AI Health Hackathon | Gritfeat | 2023 |
1st Runner Up - Hackathon for HealthCare | BPKHIS and GDHUB | 2022 |
2nd Runner Up - OpenIMIS Datathon | Asia eHealth Network and IOE, Pulchowk Campus | 2022 |
Hack-A-Week Winner (Category - FinTech) | LOCUS | 2022 |
Full Scholarship Recipient of NAAMII Winter School of AI, 2021 | NAAMII | 2022 |
Grace Hopper Celebration Student Scholar | AnitaB.org | 2021 |
Women Leaders in Technology Fellowship 2020/21 | WLiT Nepal | 2020 |
Rajan Karki Memorial Outstanding Student Award | St. Xavier's College, Maitighar | 2018 |
I have had short hair, almost all my adult life, and my choice of clothes are not exactly feminine.
From the beginning, I knew the watchman was evil, and the maid who came to cook and clean every two days wanted to kill me.
10th of Baishakh, a day before Matatirtha Aaushi, I announced, "Tomorrow, I am going to cook lunch for everyone." This announcement might be a normal one in any household, but it was enough to shock everyone in mine.
A bustling evening in Kathmandu with the sun setting down the sky in the backdrop; a chilly breeze brushing our face as we were walking down the streets of Maitighar.
My family had a very special Mother’s Day this year because we had our grandmother with us. Early in the morning, after exchanging tika, gifts and blessings, we were ready for some snaps.
Any kind of imagination fascinates me. Perception and outlook that are different than my own easily mesmerise me.
The most difficult and yet the most enthralling part about a ‘college day’ is my ride back home. The most convenient vehicle to reach my home is a mini bus which we call ‘force gaadi’ in our area.