AI & Full-Stack Developer. I build end-to-end ML pipelines and production-grade web apps. BTech AI, Kathmandu University.
- ๐ AI/ML: NLP & ASR, low-resource language fine-tuning, reward-guided training, LLM integration, data curation
- ๐ป Full-Stack: Next.js, React, React Native from backend to polished frontend
- ๐ฌ Currently researching: Nepali-English code-switching speech recognition
- ๐ Lead author of a Whisper fine-tuning paper for low-resource Nepali ASR, accepted (oral) at CHiPSAL 2026
- ๐ฑ Always building, always shipping
- ๐ค Open to: contract work, freelance, research collaborations
Reward-Guided Fine-Tuning of Whisper for Low-Resource Nepali ASR
Published at CHiPSAL 2026 Workshop ยท LREC 2026 ยท Mallorca, Spain
Developed a reward-guided fine-tuning framework for Whisper utilizing a Random Forest model to filter noisy samples from a 70+ hour dataset, achieving an 11โ12% relative improvement in transcription accuracy.



