Postgraduate Researcher

Coventry University (Sept 2024 - Sept 2025)

Project: Lowering the Cost of Healthcare by Clinical Coding with LLMs
Supervisors: Dr. Xiaorui Jiang, Prof. Vasile Palade

• Explored the viability of LLMs in clinical coding for evidence extraction, code prediction, and code verification.
• Conducted quality and error analysis on existing clinical coding datasets using LLMs, in collaboration with professional clinical coders.
• Evaluated the performance and cost-effectiveness of different few-shot learning strategies for adapting PLMs and LLMs to clinical coding tasks.

Undergraduate Researcher

Center for Applied Research and Development (CARD) (Jul 2022 - May 2023)

• Led research on low-resource Nepali Text-to-Speech Synthesis under the supervision of Dr. Basanta Joshi.
• Open Science Contribution: Created and released a comprehensive Nepali TTS dataset on OpenSLR to accelerate community research.
• Developed an end-to-end TTS pipeline and deployed the model via a mobile application to test real-world usability.
• Published at SIGUL 2023 (Interspeech Workshop): "Nepali Text-to-Speech Synthesis using Tacotron2 for Melspectrogram Generation" (Khadka et al.).

NLP Research Intern

NAAMII (Oct 2022 - Apr 2023)

• Conducted a comparative study of Nepali NLP landscapes (Summarization, Transliteration, and MT) under Dr. Bishesh Khanal.
• Curated benchmark datasets for Sentiment Analysis and Machine Translation, analyzing linguistic features and dataset limitations.

Conversational AI Engineer

Diyo.AI (May 2023 - August 2024)

• Built multilingual chatbots for sensitive domains including Sexual and Maternal Reproductive Health, and E-Governance.
• Integrated LLMs (GPT-3.5, Llama2, BLOOM) to enhance Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for low-resource languages like Nepali.
• HCI & User Trust: Analyzed user interaction logs to refine conversation flows, ensuring safety and privacy in health-related queries.
• Successfully pitched at ICT Startup Awards 2023, securing a top 5 finalist position.

Computer Vision Research Engineer

Rara Labs (Jan 2023 - Mar 2023) (Contract)

• Worked on the discovery phase of implementing AI for NWash, a project initiated by the Ministry of Water Supply, Nepal in collaboration with the British Embassy, Frontier Tech and Rara Labs.
• Implemented object detection algorithms (YOLO, R-CNN) on the NWash dataset and integrated them into a web-based monitoring system.

Technical Facilitator

Women Leaders in Technology (Sept 2020 - Nov 2023)

• Served as a Technical Facilitator for three consecutive batches of WLiT fellowship program aimed at empowering women leaders in technology, after graduating as a fellow.
• Instructed over 50 fellows in essential technical subjects, including Git, Basic and Asynchronous JavaScript concepts, Express, and MongoDB, during the fellowship bootcamp.
• Promoted to Technical Lead in the latest batch, overseeing all technical sessions and projects, and teaching approximately half of the classes throughout the duration of the fellowship.

Planning Coordinator

Github Field Day Nepal 2022 & 2023

• Part of the Organizing Committee of the first and second GitHub Field Day in Nepal
• Responsible for Planning the Main Event
• Responsible for Pre-event and Event Day Coordination
• Managed Selected and Waitlisted Applicants

Event Manager

Hult Prize at IOE, Pulchowk Campus 2022

• Part of one of the top on-campus programs in the Central Asia Region
• Organized 4 physical orientations and three virtual orientations for 12 colleges
• Organized 4 entrepreneurship talk series and two workshops for 600+ participants in total
• Organized 2 mentorship sessions for 47 semifinalists and 18 finalists respectively
• Interviewed more that 70 applicants for the position of Campus Representatives and Volunteers

Technical Manager (September 2020 - June 2022)

Pulchowk Girls

• Responsible for managing technical aspects in webinars
• Designed flyers, t-shirts and tokens of love for all events
• Managed mass-mailing for each event
• Organized 3 webinars, "International Day of Girl Child" Themed Art Competition, and a movement to improve Ladies Washroom in Pulchowk Campus
• Prepared Sanitation Survey Report for Ladies Washroom Improvement Campaign
• Managed three technical coordinators, who were part of the Technical Team

WLiT Fellow 2020/21

Women Leaders in Technology

• Was selected as one of the 15 fellows from 99 applicants for the year 2020/21
• Attended two-weeks long bootcamp on javascript, Node.js, MongoDB; built a project and presented at the end
• Conducted an Hour of Code session with about 40 school students
• Attended two monthly meetups each month
• Completed six hours of mentorship sessions in a span of 6 months
• Finished a two-month long internship as React Intern at Sochware

Editor

The Zerone Magazine

• Served as the editor, associate editor, and managing editor for the Electronics and Computer Engineering department magazine, The Zerone, in the years 2019, 2020, and 2023, respectively.
• Responsible for managing junior editors and editing, proofreading, shortlisting incoming articles.

Contributor

Nepal Online School

• One of the many contributors to have helped build Nepal Online School
• Made over 20 videos of subjects like science, health and moral education which is up on Nepal Online School's youtube channel.
• Member of Girls in Education(GIE), an organization of all the female contributors of Nepal Online School

President

St.Xavier's Literary Club, 2018

• In charge of organizing and conducting the club meetings
• Coordinated with the administration, club moderators and members for organizing any event
• Head of the selection committee; supervised the auditions and monitored the time table of every event
• Successfully organized four club events including Kavi Gosthi, the most awaited event of the year