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Master of Data Science for Public Policy

Hertie School

Data Science for Public Policy

• Main fields: Data Science, Governance, Advanced Quantitative Methods.
• Core subjects: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Causal Inference.
• Data for Good Full Scholarship, Dieter Schwarz Stiftung.

Postgraduate Diploma

The Open Institute for Social Science

Research and Writing in Social Science

• Research design, critical epistemology and methodology, ethnographic theory.

Bachelor of Engineering

Tribhuvan University

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Research Assistant, Antisemitism in LLMs

University of Bern

Anti-semitic speech detection and propagation by generative AI.

• Built and benchmarked a 5-model LLM classification pipeline for a hate-speech study, improving macro F1 from ~0.68 to ~0.86 and scaling analysis to 8,523 outputs.

Technical Consultant, Gen Z Digital Movement Study

Policy Entrepreneurs, Inc. (PEI)

Provided computational social science expertise for a study on Gen Z digital movements in Nepal.

• Built social network analysis on Nepali 5185 Reddit Authors and explored cross-platform engagement patterns (Hashtag Co-occurrence on Facebook) during Pre-GenZ protest; provided technical guidance on data collection and analysis.

Computational Social Science Researcher & Lead Developer (part-time)

logiq.media

Volunteer researcher (Jan–Mar 2026); part-time from Apr 2026.

• On SHIFT (Shaping Informed Frameworks for Trust), a 13-country EU-Funded Project, preparing upcoming audience segmentation, network mapping pipelines, and creator-driven A/B testing environments to track engagement shifts.
• Lead developer of ElfBot, a prototype for AI-based Facebook comment moderation (ingestion/polling/webhooks backend; classifier rules and fine-tuned LLMs) detecting trolls and toxic comments with human-in-the-loop review; v1 focused on disinformation triage, surfacing coordinated-behavior signals for analyst review (intro-video).
• Co-authored empirical commentary on the gap between fact-checking output volume and public reception in contested feeds — submitted to the HKS Misinformation Review.

Technical Consultant, B2B Creator Outreach

My Voice Counts

Provided B2B technical support and creator outreach for a Gen Z civic-engagement app.

• Supported creator outreach strategy for MyVoiceCounts (a civic and political engagement app piloted during Nepal Election 2026), identifying and vetting suitable creators and contributing to promotion efforts; one resulting video reached 1.5M views and 100K+ reactions.
• Provided technical support in sourcing and evaluating creators and content partners for outreach campaigns.

Short-term Computer Engineer

Weizenbaum Institute & University of Bern

Research infrastructure for longitudinal platform auditing.

• Designed reproducible, modular web-scraping framework (Botasaurus) for algorithmic auditing of Yandex and Google in Kremlin-disinformation research — GitHub.
• Implemented fingerprint evasion, proxy orchestration, CAPTCHA handling, and structured logging; documented for social-science researchers.

Werkstudent (Data Engineering)

Welthungerhilfe — Digital Services & Operations

Bridging data science with humanitarian research at a leading international NGO.

• Developed and maintained automated data pipelines (Python, PySpark, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory) integrating employee and training data from external APIs — eliminating manual processes and improving data accuracy.
• Built robust API integrations (token management, pagination, rate limiting, error handling); improved pipeline logging and monitoring with real-time progress tracking; performed technical error analysis and optimization of pipelines.
• Led proof-of-concept for automated metadata ingestion and data lineage (OpenMetadata, PyApacheAtlas, MS Purview); presented governance framework at internal workshop with Viadee; served as technical point of contact for teams and stakeholders.

Quality Specialist (Mobile)

Immobilien Scout GmbH

• Executed 20+ integration and A/B tests on Android/iOS; implemented Maestro automation framework improving efficiency by ~30%.

Lead Automation Engineer

Qniverse Pvt. Ltd.

• Led QA automation and team mentorship for international research projects; achieved 90% API test coverage ahead of schedule.
• Built browser automation and web scraping infrastructure (Selenium, Playwright) used across multiple UKRI-funded projects.
• Employment Guru Award (2023) for QA leadership and process optimization.

Software Engineer, Data Analytics

Verisk Nepal Pvt. Ltd.

• Developed performance-testing and schema-comparison tools (.NET Core/C#) for REST APIs; reduced deployment cycles from hours to minutes.
• Built Python regression test suites for AWS/Snowflake data-ingestion ETL pipeline.

Research Assistant (Volunteer)

DeepTrace — South Asia Deepfake Detection

Dataset annotation and benchmark development for underrepresented contexts.

• Established annotation guidelines and benchmarks for AI-generated visual content in South Asian contexts.
• Contributed dataset-collection UI/UX design — deepfake-research.org.

Summer Research Intern

Koç University (EnlightenAI / Human-AI Interaction)

Social media data tooling and NLP feature engineering.

• Built TikTok web-scraping and metadata tooling; comparative assessment of third-party data providers.
• Contributed Named Entity Recognition features for search models with Human-AI Interaction team.

Accepted poster — Beyond the ban: co-engagement network signals on Nepali Reddit in the run-up to the Sep 8 Gen Z protest (25 June 2026). See Pre-Protest Reorganization project.

Accepted poster for my Master Thesis (8 October 2026).

TCSS 2026 (Koç University, Istanbul)

Talk — TikTok virality and political engagement in Nepal’s 2022 election. Slides. See Beyond the Ballot project.

Posters — TikTok virality and political engagement in Nepal’s 2022 election (SICSS poster, MPIB poster), and stance polarization on Bluesky. See Beyond the Ballot and Stance Polarization on Bluesky projects.

SSaLM, Weizenbaum Institute (2025)

Poster — deploying DistilBERT to detect and mitigate information bias. Poster.

Data for Good Scholarship

Dieter Schwarz Stiftung

Full scholarship for the Hertie School’s Msc. Data Science for Public Policy programme.

Employment Guru Award

Qniverse Pvt. Ltd.

Recognition for QA automation leadership.

ESSA Scholarship

ESSA

BEHAVE Summer School on Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists.

Verisk Way to Go

Verisk Analytics

Recognition for API testing and data-analysis tooling.