About
Why I traded topographic sheets for tensors, and what I'm working toward.
Profile
I'm a fourth-semester Geomatics Engineering student at the Institute of Engineering, Paschimanchal Campus (Tribhuvan University), Nepal. My work lives at the intersection of satellite imagery, geographic information systems, and machine learning — using each to answer a simple question: what is actually happening on the ground, and how do we know sooner?
Growing up in a country shaped by monsoon floods, earthquakes, and retreating glaciers, I became interested early in how remote sensing could turn distant, delayed information into something local communities could act on immediately. That interest has since grown into a structured research direction spanning crop monitoring, disaster response, and climate risk mapping.
I want to build GeoAI systems that are both scientifically rigorous and genuinely usable — models that don't just perform well on benchmark datasets, but that hold up against the messiness of real satellite revisit gaps, cloud cover, and data-scarce regions like the Himalaya. My long-term goal is a fully funded PhD in Geospatial AI, followed by a research career applying Earth observation and deep learning to climate adaptation in South Asia.
Reproducible pipelines, honest cross-validation, no shortcuts on ground-truth.
Models grounded in Nepal's terrain, seasons, and data realities — not generic benchmarks.
Sharing code, datasets, and dashboards freely wherever possible.
Personal Timeline
Enrolled at IOE Paschimanchal Campus, Tribhuvan University, drawn to the blend of surveying, GIS, and spatial computation.
Discovered Google Earth Engine and Python-based geospatial analysis; began self-teaching machine learning fundamentals.
Built early prediction pipelines (house price modeling, dataset engineering) to strengthen ML fundamentals.
Began NDVI-based crop yield prediction research and started scoping a GeoAI venture concept for South Asian agriculture.
Preparing applications for Erasmus Mundus Copernicus, DAAD, and ITC Orange Knowledge programs while building a research portfolio.