About
Hi, I'm Janak. I'm a software engineer and a Computer Science master's student at the University of Kansas. Most of what I do sits somewhere between machine learning and backend work.
For the past couple of years I've worked across NLP, LLMs, and backend engineering. At Maitri Services I worked on backend development for their medical coding platform. Before that I was at Cotiviti Nepal on healthcare analytics, and I spent some time on NLP research at NAAMII. I did my Bachelor's in Computer Engineering at Pulchowk Campus.
Day to day I reach for Python, Django, FastAPI, and PyTorch. I like problems where language and data meet real engineering, and I write about the things I figure out along the way.
Experience
Software Engineer (AI)
Backend development for a Django medical coding platform, with asynchronous task queues handled by Celery.
Software Engineer (Analytics)
Worked on Quality Intelligence, an analytics tool that helps health plans track and improve compliance, and on Star Intelligence, which lets them predict and model their Medicare Star Ratings.
NLP Research Intern
Ran exploratory data analysis for NER, POS tagging, text classification, and machine translation, and led a systematic review of Nepali NLP that identified critical gaps in low-resource datasets and benchmarks.
AI Scholar
Full-scholarship, year-long AI fellowship covering computer vision and NLP. Implemented sentiment analysis for Nepali COVID-19 tweets with the MuRIL BERT model and built a face-recognition system with the FaceNet architecture.
Education
MS, Computer Science
BE, Computer Engineering
Publications
Springer
2023
Comparative Analysis and Study of Technology Approaches to Document Image Understanding from Structured Text Document Images
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 demo for real-time predictions. PyTorch · FastAPI · React.
Publication Repository
A tool to organize research papers and journals and export citations to JSON, BibTeX, MLA, and APA. Django · Bootstrap.
Checkers AI
A game-playing AI using minimax with alpha-beta pruning and depth-limited search for smooth, responsive play. pygame.
Q Bot
A question-answering system that retrieves relevant answers from a passage using the TF-IDF algorithm. Python · NLTK.
Learning
Notes I write while learning a topic properly, starting from the basics. I add more as I go.
Writing
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