Selected Work
Engineering Projects
Projects spanning robotics, embedded ML, agentic data pipelines, and disaster-response hardware — from coursework labs to a March 2027 major-project demo.
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ProjectsMajor, minor, and capstone builds + coursework and archived projects
P — 018 In Progress
BiasAperture — Vision Fairness & Bias Audit
- Diagnostic & evaluative framework for auditing demographic bias in deployed facial-analysis classifiers — computes subgroup and intersectional fairness metrics in regulator-legible formats (EU AI Act Article 10 / NIST RMF)
- Analytical core computes DPD, EOD, EOP, and DIR across 126 race × age × gender demographic bins using AIF360 and Fairlearn with $\chi^2$ significance tests, BCa bootstrap confidence intervals, and SHAP surrogate explainability
- Fusemachines AI Fellowship Capstone, two-person engineering team with Tisha Manandhar
M1: Schema Lock
M2: Data Ingest
M3: Compliance Report
M4: Statistical Engine
M5: Audit & Case Study
P — 001 2024
Gesture-Controlled Self-Balancing Robot
- Two-wheeled inverted pendulum robot with real-time dual-hand MediaPipe gesture control over HC-05 Bluetooth
- Examiner rated major-project level — 9.6/10
P — 015 In Progress
SPARK — Two-Layer Fall Detection Wearable
- On-device, two-layer fall-detection wearable for eldercare — threshold gate plus a TFLite Micro CNN gateway, zero imports, zero custom PCB
- BEI major project, four-person team — proposal defended Jul 9, 2026
Proposal (Jul 9)
Mid-term (Jul 13)
WP1 (Aug 31)
Demo (Mar 2027)
P — 013 Jun 2026
Antenna Lab Data Analysis
- Python data-analysis pipeline for antenna radiation pattern measurements from lab Excel sheets
- SciPy cubic interpolation plus Matplotlib polar plots — Communication & RF coursework deliverable
P — 012 Jun 2026
Custom Processor FSM Design
- VHDL implementation of a custom processor datapath and FSM supporting GCD and exponentiation operations
- Simulated and verified in Vivado 2023.2 as Embedded Systems coursework
P — 010 Archived Jun 2026
PrakopNet — Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
- Solar-powered wireless mesh multi-hazard monitoring platform for remote regions of Nepal — ESP32 nodes to a Raspberry Pi 4B gateway
- Archived June 29, 2026; superseded by SPARK
Fuse AIFFusemachines AI Fellowship — weekly coursework
P — 030 12 Aug 2026
Fusemachines Wk 14 — Agentic Intent Routing
- Two candidate routing strategies for a ShopAssist AI support platform — fine-tuned BERT-family encoder vs. fine-tuned LLM/SLM — classifying customer messages into 11 specialized agent categories
- Benchmarked on 26,872 Bitext customer-support examples with a group-aware stratified split to prevent instruction-text leakage across train/val/test
P — 029 6 Aug 2026
Fusemachines Wk 13 — LSTM Text Classification
- LSTM headline classifier on AG_NEWS (World / Sports / Business / Sci-Tech) — embedding → LSTM → FC, trained top-to-bottom from a skeleton notebook
- PyTorch training loop with vocabulary building from scratch and a short conceptual-reflection section
P — 028 30 Jul 2026
Fusemachines Wk 12 — NER for Customer Support
- End-to-end Named Entity Recognition pipeline on CoNLL-2003 for automated customer-support ticket triage and CRM routing
- Text preprocessing, EDA (sentence-length / word-frequency / entity distributions), and `word2features` feature engineering ahead of model training
P — 019 Jul 2026
Fusemachines Wk 11 — Vision Transformers
- Five-module deep computer vision stack — ResNet-50 transfer learning + GradCAM, Faster R-CNN object detection, DeepLabv3+ segmentation, a from-scratch VAE, and ViT patch embedding
- CLIP zero-shot classification hit 92.0% on a 200-image slice, outscoring the fine-tuned ResNet-50 (74.1%) — deployment memo compares both for a 500-camera warehouse rollout, exported to ONNX
P — 017 16 Jul 2026
Fusemachines Wk 10 — Image Processing
- HSV-based multi-class fruit segmentation across the Fruits-360 dataset, morphological cleanup, and filter-based denoising benchmarks (Gaussian, median, bilateral)
- From-scratch Canny edge detector (96.9% pixel agreement vs. cv2.Canny()), plus a full fruit-detection pipeline — Harris corners, tuned Hough circles, connected-component separation of touching fruit, contour-based bounding boxes
P — 016 9 Jul 2026
Fusemachines Wk 9 — NEU Steel Defect CNN
- PyTorch CNN classifier for NEU-DET steel surface-defect detection — six classes, 1,800 grayscale images
- From-scratch NN foundation → tuned CNN, 98.8%/78.9% train/val accuracy; augmentation, BatchNorm, and dropout ablations plus grid-search and Optuna hyperparameter tuning
P — 014 1 Jul 2026
Fusemachines Wk 8 — Forecasting
- Time-series pipeline benchmarking nine forecasters on monthly S&P 500 data (1990–2024) via MASE/RMSE
- 4-model ensemble outperformed every single model — MASE 2.44, confirmed via Diebold-Mariano test (p = 0.0092)
P — 009 21 Jun 2026
Fusemachines Wk 7 — Customer Segmentation
- Market segmentation on UCI Online Retail II (~500,000 transactions) with RFM + category-ratio feature engineering
- Full clustering comparison — K-Means, Hierarchical, DBSCAN — validated via Silhouette and Davies-Bouldin indices
P — 008 5 Jun 2026
Fusemachines Wk 6 — Probabilistic Models
- Bayesian inference pipeline for Telco Churn using PyMC, ArviZ, and pgmpy
- MLE/MAP estimation, Dirichlet-multinomial updating, and a fitted PyMC Bayesian logistic regression artifact
P — 004 28 May 2026
Fusemachines Wk 4 — Telco Churn & CLV ML Pipeline
- Classification and regression pipeline for churn prediction and Customer Lifetime Value modeling — ROC-AUC 0.841 ± 0.005
- Ridge Regression best for CLV (mean $1,304.70); full HTML report export via Papermill
P — 003 31 May 2026
Fusemachines Wk 5 — Telco Churn Tree-Based Ensemble Pipeline
- End-to-end classification pipeline on Telco Customer Churn (7,043 rows) with SMOTE restricted to training folds only
- Random Forest + XGBoost with SHAP explainability; secondary tenure-prediction task with a Model Card
P — 002 20 May 2026
Fusemachines Wk 3 — Text-to-SQL Agentic Pipeline
- Five-stage agentic Text-to-SQL system over a PostgreSQL database — Planner → Generator → Validator → Executor → Summarizer
- 100% execution success and 100% result accuracy across a 50-question benchmark, zero retries required
P — 027 12 May 2026
Fusemachines Wk 2 — Customer API App
- 12-Factor App compliant RESTful API for customer, order, and payment management, refactored to full 12-Factor compliance with a statistics module
- FastAPI + SQLAlchemy over PostgreSQL, Dockerized with environment-based config and centralized logging
P — 026 30 Apr 2026
Fusemachines Wk 1 — Cardiac Event Data Wrangling
- Data wrangling and preparation pipeline for cardiac event analysis on a synthetic heart-attack-risk dataset
- EDA, correlation heatmap, and class-imbalance analysis ahead of downstream modeling
P — 025 Jul 2026
ONM Case Study — Fusemachines Inc.
- Organization & Management coursework case study on Fusemachines Inc.'s org structure, HR practices, and cross-functional operations
- Based on a direct interview with the company's Talent Acquisition and PR managers; LaTeX source plus compiled report
Personal Tools & AppsSide projects, utilities, and shipped tools
P — 031 In Progress
Super-NLM — Multi-Account NotebookLM Hub & MCP Server
- Unified dashboard aggregating Google NotebookLM notebooks across N Google accounts simultaneously — parallel fetch, global Ctrl+K search, in-app quick chat, and cross-account synthesis via a Pro AI engine router
- Built-in MCP server (
super-nlm-mcp) with round-robin multi-account rotation and two-tiered quota cooldown (120 s burst / midnight UTC daily) — enables parallel AI agents (Antigravity / Claude) to query notebooks without exhausting any single account's rate limit - Lazy auto-sharing cache invites query accounts as editors behind the scenes; notebook and profile listings served from local cache at zero API quota cost
P — 021 Jul–Sep 2026
Claude Desktop Multi-Profile & Autonomous Fleet Utilities
- PowerShell 7 & Windows Shell utility suite enabling multi-user profile isolation, concurrent multi-monitor window management via `--user-data-dir`, and single-instance browser OAuth (`claude://`) deep-link routing
- Cloud-native v2 distributed fleet: FastAPI coordinator backend, SQLite WAL persistence with atomic leasing, automated SKU pipeline decomposition, and autonomous client worker daemons with Claude Desktop proxy and LLM adapters
- Automated Git repository synchronization with staged diff conventional commit messaging, tray UIA usage watchdog, and cooldown alerts
P — 023 Jun 2026
IEEE KEC React Workshop
- Progressive React teaching material built for an IEEE KEC student-branch workshop — numbered lesson components from a basic Greeting through Props, a Counter, and a live Clock
- Vite-scaffolded, structured as a self-contained follow-along app for first-time React learners
P — 022 Jul 2026
Cryptarithmetic Solver & API
- Column-by-column backtracking solver for alphametic puzzles (SEND + MORE = MONEY style) — prunes invalid branches immediately on column-arithmetic failure instead of naive generate-and-test
- FastAPI wrapper with a `metrics` mode for solve-time/branch stats, plus a PowerShell helper and a no-pytest unit test runner
P — 020 Jul 2026
Pulse Live — Real-Time Interactive Polling Platform
- Real-time audience engagement platform featuring instant multi-mode polling (Choice, Q&A, Word Cloud), presenter mode, and interactive voting synchronization
- Built with React 19, TypeScript, and Supabase WebSockets / database for instant live response updates, presenter display controls, and QR code joining
P — 011 In Progress
Nexus — Personal AI Operating System
- Project-centric AI operating system replacing the multi-browser/multi-account/multi-tool workflow
- React (Vite) + FastAPI + SQLite/FTS5, parallel Groq + Gemini fan-out — v2 redesign complete June 12, 2026
v2 Core
MVP
P — 024 Sep 2026
md2pdf — Desktop Markdown to PDF Converter
- Native desktop Markdown editor and PDF conversion workstation built with Python & Tkinter
- High-fidelity conversion pipeline utilizing Pandoc (CommonMark/GFM AST → HTML) and wkhtmltopdf (WebKit HTML → PDF engine with explicit UTF-8 encoding)
- Features adjustable margins (default 20mm), live system dependency validation across Windows, macOS, and Linux, and clean save-destination dialogs
P — 007 Sep 2026
NovaOptimizer — Windows Task Manager & System Optimizer
- High-efficiency, native Windows Task Manager and system optimizer engineered in C# / .NET 10 and WPF with a minimal ~25 MB RAM footprint
- Direct NT kernel memory management: deep physical RAM purging via undocumented `NtSetSystemInformation` (Standby List, System Working Set, and process trimming) with an intelligent background watchdog
- Turbo Boost Profiles (Game, Work, and Study Mode with integrated Pomodoro focus timer), startup bloat auditor, hung-process watchdog, and system latency tweaks
P — 006 May 2026
Edge AI Stability Detection System
- ML system predicting platform stability from simulated IMU sensor data — Random Forest, 99.8% test accuracy
- REST API via FastAPI, Joblib export for robotics integration with GCSBR (Gesture-Controlled Self-Balancing Robot)
P — 005 In Progress
Alpha Android Super-App
- Modular personal super-app (Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, Material3) — gesture remote, budget tracker, multi-mode calculator
- Calculator is the primary shipping target, Play Store release in progress
Build
Play Store