I am an assistant professor, at Central Department of Computer Science, Tribhuvan University (TU), Kathmandu Nepal. Prior joining Tribhuvan University in 2017, I worked as a Computer Officer for Nepal Government from 2014 to 2017. I skilled in Natural language processing for Nepali language in the areas of Part of speech tagging, text classification, text summarization and clustering. My research areas include application of machine learning in natural language processing, text mining, image processing in general. At the moment, I am working on application of remote sensing for precision agriculture which particularly deals with drone images.

Recent Updates

• September, 2023, A paper titled “Evaluating Retinal Disease Diagnosis with an Interpretable Lightweight CNN Model Resistant to Adversarial Attacks” has been accepted for publication in journal “Journal of Imaging” (IF-3.2, Q2). Many thanks to Mr. Mohan Bhandari (PhD student at SIIT) for leading this work. read here
• September, 2023, A paper titled “Deep Learning-Based Weed Detection Using UAV Images: A Comparative Study” has been accepted for publication in journal “Drone” (IF-4.8, Q1). Many thanks to my co-authors (Prof. William, Dr. Neupane, Dr. Sitaula and Mr. Sweekar Dahal) for their overwhelming supports.
• August 2023, A paper titled “Multi-channel CNN to classify Nepali COVID-19 related tweets using hybrid features” has been accepted for publicaiton in journal “Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing” (Q1). Many thanks to Dr. Chiranjibi Sitaula for leading this work. read here
• March 2023, A paper titled “Recent Advances in Crop Disease Detection Using UAV and Deep Learning Techniques” has been accepted for publication in journal “Remote sensing” (IF- 5.0, Q1). Many thanks to my supervisors Prof. William Guo, Prof. Stephen Xu, Dr. Arjun Neupane for their support. read here
• Feb, 2023, A paper titled “Recent advances in scene image representation and classification” has been accepted for publication in Journal “Multimedia Tools and Applications” (IF-3.6, Q1). Many thanks to Dr. Chirinjibi Sitaula for leading this work.
• Feb, 2023, A paper titled “A cooperative scheme for late leaf spot estimation in peanut using UAV multispectral images” has been accepted for publication in “PLOS One” journal. Many thanks to my supervisor Prof. William Guo, Dr. Arjun Neupane and all collaborators from PCA for their support. read here
• Feb, 2023, A paper titled “BotanicX-AI: Identification of Tomato Leaf Diseases Using an Explanation-Driven Deep-Learning Model” has been accepted for publication in “Journal of Imaging”. Many thanks to my coauthors Mohan Bhandari, Dr. Arjune Neupane and Kerry Brian Walsh. read here
• September, 2022, A paper titled “Machine learning methods for precision agriculture with UAV imagery: a review” has been accepted for publicaiton in “Electronic Research Archive (IF-1.6, SCI indexed) “. Many thanks to my supervisors for their support and guidence. read_here
• September, 2022, A paper titled “Monkeypox Virus Detection Using Pre-trained Deep Learning-based Approaches” has been accepted for publicaiton in “Journal of medical system” (IF- 4.92, Q1). Many thanks to Dr. Chiranjibi Sitaula for leading this work. read here
• September, 2022, A paper titled “Explanatory classification of CXR images into COVID-19, Pneumonia and Tuberculosis using deep learning and XAI” has been accepted for publicaiton in “Computers in Biology and Medicine (IF-6.69, Q1)”. Many thanks to Mohan Bhandari for your hard work. read here
• July, 2022, A paper titled “ Attention Based Recurrent Neural Network for Nepali Text Summarization” has been accepted for publication in “Journal of institute of science and technology (JPPS ranking-2, NepJol Indexed)”. Many thanks to Bipin Timilsena and Nawaraj paudel for a great collaborations.
• June, 2022, A paper titled “Secure Image Encryption Using Chaotic, Hybrid Chaotic and Block Cipher Approach” has been accepted for publicaiton in “ Jouranl of Imaging” (SCImago-Q2). Many thanks to Mr. Nirmal chaudhary and Dr. Arjune Neupane for leading this work. Read here
• Feb, 2022, A paper titled “ A Hybrid Feature Extraction Method for Nepali COVID-19-Related Tweets Classification” has been accepted for publication in “Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience” (IF-3.63, Scimago-Q1). Many thanks to my co-authors Nawaraj paudel and Chiranjibi sitaula for a great collaboration on this project. Read here.
• Feb, 2022, A paper titled “Fruit classification using attention-based MobileNetV2 for industrial applications” has been accepted for publication in “PLOS ONE”, journal (IF-3.24, Q1). Many thanks to my co-authros and supervisors.Read here.
• December, 2021, A paper titled “Methods in the spatial deep learning: current status and future direction” has been accepted for publication in “Spatial Information Research” journal (Springer). Many thanks to Dr. Bhogendra Mishra for leading this project and all co-authors (Dr. Bhojraj Ghimire, Ashok Dahal, Nirajan Luitel, Saroj Panthi, Shiva Pariyar).Read here.
• November, 2021, A paper titled “Fusion of multi-scale Bag of Deep Visual Words features of Chest X-Ray Images to detect COVID-19 Infection” has been accepted for publication on Nature’s Journal-“Scientific Reports” (IF-5.13, Scimago-Q1). Many thanks to Dr.Chiranjibi Sitaula for leading this project and all co-authors. Read Here.
• October, 2021, A paper titled “Deep Learning-based Methods for Sentiment Analysis on Nepali COVID-19-related Tweets” has been accepted for publication on “Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience” (IF-3.63, Scimago-Q1). Many thanks to Dr. Chiranjibi Sitaula for leading this project and other co-authors: Anish Basnet and Ashish Mainlai for outstanding contributions Read Here.
• October, 2021, A paper titled “ Natural language processing for Nepali text: A review”, has been accepted for publication on “Artificial Intelligence Review” (IF-8.139, Q1). Many thanks to Dr. Chiranjibi Sitaula for outstanding collaboration in this project Read Here.
• October, 2021, A paper titled “Examining Adoption of Mobile Game in Nepal with Extended TAM” has been accepted for publication on “ Intl. Journal of Business Information Systems” by Inderscience publication. Congratulations Dr. Arjun Neupane for leading this work.
• September, 2021, A paper titled “Deep learning Based Framework for Spatiotemporal Data Fusion: An Instance of Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 NDVI” has been accepted for publication on “Journal of Applied Remote Sensing” (SCI indexed-IF 1.53, Q2 ). Congratulations Dr. Bhogendra Mishra for leading this work. Read Here.
• June, 2021, Served as a Reviewer for International conference on communication, information and computing technology(ICCICT-2021)- AIML track (https://conference.spit.ac.in/).
• May, 2021, Completed first milestone of PhD- Confirmation of Candidature (CoC), CQUniverstiy, Australia.
• August, 2020, A Paper titled “Stock Price Forecasting with Deep Learning: A Comparative Study” has been accepted in “Computer Science section” of Journal- Mathematics (IF-2.25, JCR(Q1)) Read Here
• July 30-August 3, I served as Orgnizing Member in 3rd Natioanal Workshop On machine Learning and Data Scienc-2020 (Online) https://mldsn.org
• Feb, 2020, I moved to Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia as a Research Higher Degree (RHD) student with RTP scholarship.
• July, 2019 I got a Scholarship Package (Travel Grant, Registration and Accommodation) for attending Eastern European Summer School(EEML),2019 in Romania.
• March, 2019, I recieved Travel Grant for attending International Spring School on Advanced Language Engineering-ISSALE-2019 in Sri Lanka by DAAD Germany.