Mohan Krishna Shrestha

About

AI/ML programmer with hands-on experience in NLP, speech recognition, computer vision, and full-stack software development. Built low-resource language and edge-deployment systems, and is currently pursuing a B.Sc. in Computer Science at Kathmandu University.

Experience

• Research Fellowship Lead
  Konnectcraft
• Data Analyst
  typescript_elections
• Full Stack Developer
  Khojauhub
• Backend Developer
  Sadak Sathi

Education

• +2 / SLC
  Khwopa Secondary School
  Computer Science · 2021 – 2022
• B.Sc. Computer Science
  Kathmandu University, School of Science
  Computer Science · 2022

Skills

• Python <3 months
• Django <3 months
• NumPy <3 months
• Pandas <3 months
• Flask <3 months
• PyTorch <3 months
• Scipy <3 months
• Yolo <3 months
• RAG <3 months
• Vector Search <3 months
• XGBoost <3 months
• Hugging Face Transformers <3 months
• WebRTC <3 months
• Bert <3 months

Tools / apps / platforms

• FFmpeg <3 months
• Git <3 months

Projects

• Shruti — Nepal Bhasa (Newari) Speech Recognition
  Signal preprocessing, Silero VAD, NeMo Conformer, SymSpell, phonetic edit distance, bigram LM

  Built a full ASR pipeline for Nepal Bhasa and reduced Word Error Rate from ~99% to ~14% with local, cloud-free inference.

• Gemma-3-270M Fine-tune — Newari Autocomplete ↗
  LoRA, PEFT

  Fine-tuned Google's Gemma-3-270M on Newari ASR transcripts and text corpora for sentence completion.

• UAV Real-Time Flood Detection ↗
  YOLO26x, Raspberry Pi 5, WebRTC

  Streaming-first computer vision pipeline for edge hardware; reached 30 FPS at sub-200ms latency and trained a flood-detection dataset.

• K Raicha Yo
  Vision-language models

  Camera and vision-language model app to identify plants, signage, and objects for trekkers in Nepal.

• Git Timeline Visualizer
  Git, terminal emulator

  Interactive Git visualization tool showing repository states as nodes and Git commands as edges for teaching Git concepts.

Courses & certifications

• DataCamp · Kathmandu University Artificial Intelligence Club (KUAIC) · 2025