CV

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

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 European Narratives Observatory project. Builds audience segmentation and narrative-mapping pipelines to identify bridging actors and high-risk narrative clusters for counter-narrative experiments.
• Developing ElfBot — a human-in-the-loop agentic AI system for disinformation triage, surfacing coordinated-behavior signals (burst dynamics, account clusters) for analyst review with citation-linked, confidence-calibrated outputs (demo, 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.

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.

Data Scientist / Engineer

Welthungerhilfe — Data Analytics & AI Unit

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

• Designed and deployed end-to-end data pipeline (Microsoft Fabric, Spark, Power BI, DAX) for impact reporting; reduced query latency by 60%.
• Led proof-of-concept for automated metadata ingestion and data lineage (OpenMetadata, PyApacheAtlas, MS Purview); presented governance framework at internal workshop with Viadee.
• Cross-functional collaboration with research and operations teams on data-driven decision-making.

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 — Pre-Mobilization Reorganization of Online Discourse before Nepal’s September 2025 Gen-Z Protest (25 June 2026). See Pre-Mobilization Reorganization project.

Accepted poster — youth political mobilization and digital-trace signals (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 master’s 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.