Experiences

Secretary at KUAIC (Kathmandu University Artificial Intelligence Club)

  • Currently serving as the general secretary for the KUAI Club for the year 2025.
  • Maintaining proper event reports and meeting’s documentations and managing correspondence.
  • Have organized events like bootcamps, workshops for general members in collaboration with KUAI Club executives.

Documentation Team at AI Crusade

  • Wrote a complete documentation of the event describing its objectives and impacts on pushing technological innovation in our society
  • Interacted with the participants and recorded their experience, feedbacks and and summary of their projects
  • Volunteered in the event to help successfully carry out the program

Deputy Secretary at Xavier STEM Club

Served as a deputy secretary general in my high school’s STEM club and helped organize various workshops, competitions like inter-school Mathematics Olympiads

  • Conducted weekly club-meetings to discuss about various club-agendas and wrote minutes about the meeting’s briefing, summary and club’s future works.
  • Wrote proposals to seek permission from the school’s principal for organizing events
  • Successfully conducted Xavier Mathematics Olympiad 2.0 in November, 2022

Executive/Board Member at Xavier Innovation And Entrepreneurship Club

Served as a executive/board member in Xavier Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club during high school and helped conduct workshops and events

  • Participated in weekly club-meetings to discuss and share ideas/advices about clubs activities and future plans
  • Helped organize a workshop on innovation and entrepreneurship as an organising committee in December, 2022

Class Representative at Xavier International College, A levels

Served as a class representative in high school for a year

  • Participated in Student’s Representative Seminar conducted in July, 2022.
  • Helped manage the classroom during teacher’s absence
  • Relayed information and updates to my classmates regarding academics and college
  • Recorded each class period’s timing and syllabus taught daily

Projects

Medicinal Herbs Classification

  • Developed a deep learning model using ResNet50, DenseNet121, and VGG16 to classify 96 classes of medicinal plants.
  • Faced data collection challenges due to rare high-altitude plants and plan to expand dataset for further accuracy improvement.

Nepali News Summarizer and Text-to-Speech (TTS)

  • Fine-tuned XTTSv2 for Nepali language, utilizing google’s open source dataset of recorded audio and transcriptions
  • Built a Streamlit web app that summarizes Nepali news articles and converts summaries into speech using TTS
  • Integrated file upload and text input options for flexible user interaction and efficient information consumption.

References

James Prasad

pd.james@xavier.edu.np

Ashim Shrestha

ashimshrestha423@gmail.com