Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

• Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY [Aug 2022 — 2027 (expected)]
• Researching in the field of Continual Learning and Test Time Adaptation at Lab of Use-inspired Computational Intelligence.

Research Scientist Intern

• ZillowGroup Remote [May 2025 — Sep 2025]
• Developed a parameter-efficient finetuning-based framework for continual user modeling using mixture of rank-1 experts; manuscript under review.

Machine Learning Engineer

• Fusemachines Kathmandu, Nepal [Sep 2019 — Jun 2022]
• Worked on the design of machine learning pipeline and implementation of deep learning models for four industry projects.
• Developed course materials for Fusemachines microdegree, fuseAI program, focusing on Computer Vision, Transformer-based Natural Language Processing, and Time Series Analysis.

Instructor for “Mathematics for AI”

• fuseAI & Herald College Kathmandu, Nepal [Jan 2021 — Jun 2021]
• Instructed undergraduate course covering fundamental mathematics for machine learning, including Linear Algebra, Calculus, Probability and Statistics, and Information Theory.

AI Intern

• Leapfrog Technology Kathmandu, Nepal [Jan 2019 — Jun 2019]
• Worked in license plate localization with standard convolutional neural networks and different loss functions.
• Trained to build a face recognition system with face detection, point-based face alignment, face embedding model, and nearest-neighbor classifier.