Curriculum Vitae

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Education

Jan 2026 – Jan 2028 (exp.)

MS, Computer Science

University of Kansas · Lawrence, KS

GPA 4.0 / 4.0 (after first semester).

Sep 2018 – Apr 2023

BE, Computer Engineering

IOE, Pulchowk Campus · Lalitpur, Nepal

Full Scholarship · Entrance rank 25 / 16,000 (~4% acceptance) · 79.91%.

Experience

Apr 2024 – Dec 2025

Software Engineer (AI)

Maitri Services · Lalitpur, Nepal

Backend development for a Django medical coding platform, with asynchronous task queues handled by Celery.

Apr 2023 – Feb 2024

Software Engineer (Analytics)

Cotiviti Nepal · Kathmandu, Nepal

Built Quality Intelligence, an analytics tool that helps health plans track, monitor, and improve compliance with proprietary quality metrics, and contributed to Star Intelligence for predicting and modeling Medicare Star Ratings.

May 2022 – Aug 2023

AI Scholar

Fusemachines · Lalitpur, Nepal

Awarded a full scholarship for a year-long AI fellowship covering computer vision and NLP. Implemented sentiment analysis for Nepali COVID-19 tweets with MuRIL BERT and built a face-recognition system with FaceNet.

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023

NLP Research Intern

NAAMII · Lalitpur, Nepal

Ran exploratory data analysis for NER, POS tagging, text classification, and machine translation, and led a systematic review of Nepali NLP identifying gaps in low-resource linguistic resources and benchmarks.

Teaching & Leadership

Jan 2023

Lead Organizer

LOCUS Code Camp · Pulchowk, Nepal

Led a two-day coding hackathon, handling scheduling, participant coordination, and fundraising, and arranged mentors for 100 participants ahead of the final demos.

2022

Instructor & Organizer

Children in Technology & Internet Safety

Developed the syllabus and materials and ran campaigns in 50 schools, teaching children about internet safety, cyberbullying, malware, and online predators.

Jul 2022

Python Instructor

LOCUS · Pulchowk Campus

Taught Python, data science, and Git/GitHub to 120 participants over a 10-day software fellowship workshop, preparing course materials and lecture slides.

Skills

Languages
C#, Python, JavaScript, MATLAB
Libraries / Frameworks
PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, Hugging Face, Django, FastAPI
Tools / Platforms
Git, GitHub, Jira, Bitbucket, Docker
Databases
PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Publications

ICTIS
Springer
2023

Comparative Analysis and Study of Technology Approaches to Document Image Understanding from Structured Text Document Images

Janak Sharma

Proceedings of ICTIS 2023 · Ahmedabad, India · Published by Springer

Projects

Information Extraction

Fine-tuned LayoutLM to extract key-value pairs from IRS-990 forms (F1 0.9), with a custom in-house annotation tool. PyTorch · FastAPI · React · MongoDB.

Nepali Sentiment Analysis

Fine-tuned MuRIL for sentence-level sentiment in Nepali, with an interactive real-time demo. PyTorch · FastAPI · React.

Publication Repository

Organizes research papers and exports citations to JSON, BibTeX, MLA, and APA. Django · Bootstrap.

Checkers AI

Game-playing AI using minimax with alpha-beta pruning and depth-limited search. pygame.

Q Bot

Question-answering system that retrieves answers from a passage using TF-IDF. Python · NLTK.

Honors & Awards

  • Winner, ML Hackathon at LOCUS 2023
  • All-rank 25 in the B.E. entrance exam (Computer Engineering)
  • Registered & Licensed Engineer by competitive examNepal Engineering Council

Certifications