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 Tara Sigdel, PhD. is an associate professor of Biochemistry at the University of California, San Francisco.  

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00:00 - Intro

 04:00 - About Guest

 06:00 - Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry 

11:00 - Publishing Research Papers 

14:00 - Independent Research 

20:30 - Graduate School Application       

24:33 - Developing Research-Oriented Mindset in Nepal       

29:29 - NIRI community       

33:59 - Handling Intellectual Properties       

35:30 - Diaspora as global ambassador   

41:34 - How to get out of the donation trap?        

49:50 - Second-generation Nepali in the US        

56:02 - How was it a wise decision to come to the US?    

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Rajendra Adhikari, Ph.D. was born and raised in the staff quarters of the National Electricity Authority(NEA) of the Devighat Hydropower plant in Nuwakot, Nepal. He often visited the hydropower plant location during his childhood with his father, who used to repair electric motors and machines. Having been introduced to the power generating mechanisms early on, he pursued a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Engineering (IOE) Pulchowk Nepal and earned a graduate degree and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University, USA focusing on an algorithmic approach to control demand response of residential Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning(HVAC) systems. Currently, he works as a researcher and software engineer for the Residential Buildings Research Group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL). His works involve building innovative home-controlling software technologies. 

Rajendra loves learning about new technologies and building new software for fun. He enjoys playing Age of Empires(AOE2.

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00:00 - Intro

02:24 - Pulchowk Campus and Brain drain

05:36 - Ph.D. in Controlling HVAC Systems

12:56 - Interesting Electrical Engineering Sub-domains

15:49 - Software in Electrical Engineering

22:41 - Power Systems

29:18 - Generating Electricity

32:38 - Work Cultures in USA vs Nepal

36:47 - Software Controlled Power Systems

41:27 - Learning Approaches

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 Sudheesh Bhattarai is a Software Engineer at Amazon and is in the Ads line of business. He is currently residing in Toronto, Canada. Prior to Amazon, Sudheesh worked at Bank of America and was based in NYC. Sudheesh graduated with a Computer Science degree from Howard University in Washington, DC. Apart from his day-to-day work, he is really passionate about photography and is slowly trying to get into videography as well. He loves traveling and hiking when possible. He is also a big-time Arsenal fan. 

 यो मन त मेरो नेपाली हो

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Timestamp:

00:00 - Intro 

02:00 - Normal work schedule 

03:00 - Working in Canada vs the USA  

03:58 - Growing from student to a Software Engineer 

05:00 - Advice for a freshman in Computer Science 

09:15 - Favorite programming language 

10:30 - Are most backend systems built in Java? 

12:00 - In the job 

15:00 - Working on Banking vs Tech domains 

17:22 - Team size and leadership roles 

18:50 - Interesting problem solved 

22:24 - Software Engineering best practices 

25:45 - Managing a software project 

29:00 - Cloud for Software Engineers 

30:20 - Documentation 

31:10 - Cracking the coding interview 

42:15 - Dealing with behavioral questions using STAR 

46:10 - Database 

47:30 - Growth mindset 

52:15 - Work culture 

54:30 - Handling the tickets 

55:50 - givingBack story 

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About Guest: 

Rupesh Shrestha is a Mechanical Engineer who earned his undergraduate degree at Visvesvaraya Technological University in India. Rupesh has a passion for design and sketching, which made him pursue certification in Solidworks, a 3D Computer-aided design software. Coincidentally, he is the first person based in Nepal to be a Certified Solidworks Expert and to be selected as a SolidWorks Champion from Nepal.  Rupesh is involved in different organizations in Nepal such as National Innovation Center, and Action Nepal (NGO) solving real-life problem-solving projects in Nepal. With his knowledge and expertise in this field, Rupesh hopes to contribute to improving the productivity of the agricultural sector of Nepal.

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00:00 - Intro

03:05 - Mechanical Engineering Overview 

08:10 - Opportunities after graduation 

09:45 - How to learn 3D designing independently? 

13:45 - Types of Design 

16:10 - Design cultures in Nepal 

26:30 - Manufacturing plant abroad 

27:30 - Mechanical Engineering Community in Nepal 

30:00 - Design Process Life Cycle 

34:30 - Prototyping vs Manufacturing designs 

37:25 - National Innovation Center 

45:10 - Printing Designs in Nepal 

46:40 - Managing a project in Solidworks 

51:35 - 3D Animation 

52:44 - Recommended Computer Spec  

54:25 - Myths  

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Krishna Gaihre is an engineer and an entrepreneur based in Nepal. He is the founder & CEO of LogicTronix, an FPGA Design & Machine Learning Company, which is also a ‘Design Service Partner for Xilinx Kria SoM FPGA for AI/ML’. His works with LogicTronix include creating AI acceleration-based expert capabilities at LogicTronix, creating high-skilled opportunities in Nepal in the field of AI and tech, and creating an accelerated incubation platform for fostering technology-backed entrepreneurship in Nepal.

 He shares his idea via medium blogs available at: https://logictronix.medium.com/

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 Timestamp: 

00:00 -  Intro

06:40 -  Opportunities in Embedded Systems Design   

08:40 -  Solving Unique Problems of Nepal 

11:45 -  Crossing the chasm  

20:10 -  FPGA Programming 

26:01 -  Traffic Management System 

32:30 -  Direct Competitors 

38:25 -  Product Market Fit in the least Developed Countries 

43:00 -  Implementation in Nepal    

48:20 -  Import & Export

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Bibek Basnet is an education development practitioner, who’s working as a consultant for Global Partnership for Education at the World Bank at the time of this conversation. He recently completed his master’s in Education Policy and Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. During the pandemic, Bibek worked for Eduki—a Nepali ed-tech startup—to develop online math learning materials for Nepali students, which are also publicly available on Youtube. Bibek is passionate about making education meaningful and fun while supporting governments to strengthen education delivery systems. Besides working on education, he finds himself listening to music, singing, going on walks, and contemplating our existence in this world.  

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 10:00 - middle school curriculum 

14:00 - resource distribution 

22:00 - Open-source learning platform 

29:00 - Crisis of Confidence 

35:00 - Global South as workspace 

37:00 - accessibility of distant learning 

41:00 - Being a Critical Consumer of Information 

49:00 - Error in Literacy 

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Timestamps:

 00:00 | Intro 

02:17 | Transition to a job from an internship 

03:13 | Associate Data Scientist 

03:38 | CS Skills in Data Science 

04:55 | Bridging the gap between CS and DS 

06:18 | Projects 

08:00 | Real-life examples and tools 

09:06 | Supervised & Unsupervised Learning 

11:35 | Linear & Logistic Regression 

15:25 | Variables 

18:00 | Precision 

18:26 | Messy Data!? 

19:31 | Selecting Features 

21:20 | Data dealt by Companies 

24:12 | Training

 26:30 | Life at IBM 

30:00 | Recommendation System 

31:47 | Software Engineering and ML Algorithms 

33:35 | Testing a Model 

36:00 | Biasness and Outliers 

39:11 | ML, AI, and Deep Learning 

43:00 | Cloud & Big Query 

46:15 | Resources

Drones in Nepal - Uttam Pudasaini - Nepal Flying Lab

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