Experiences
Secretary at KUAIC (Kathmandu University Artificial Intelligence Club)
Jan 31, 2025 - Present
- 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
Nov 30, 2024 - Dec 01, 2024
- 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
2022 - 2023
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
2022 - 2023
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
2022 - 2023
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
Academic Adviser
Xavier International College A Levels, Kalopul, Kathmandupd.james@xavier.edu.np
Ashim Shrestha
President, Kathmandu University Artificial Intelligence Club
ashimshrestha423@gmail.com